Budapest and Warsaw now face the real threat of the EU withholding budget payments should they continue to breach their commitments to the rile of law. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has welcomed a landmark judgement by the...
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Opinions of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona are not binding, but the Luxembourg-based ECJ usually follows them...
A Polish law ostensibly aimed at curbing the power of major social networks to unilaterally remove content they see as problematic may not be what it at first seems. At...
A new, five-year EU LGBT+ Equality Strategy marks a qualitative shift from the European Commission towards playing its full role to defend and protect LGBT+ rights in...
A landmark agreement will for the first time link EU funds to respect for the rule of law. Hungary has already signalled its displeasure at the deal. European Union...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Czechia has reimposed a full lockdown for the next two weeks in order to combat the spread of Covid-19. All shops and small businesses have been forced to close, with...
The European Commission has published its first EU-wide report on the rule of law. The report includes input from every member state and covers both positive and...
Foreign investors in Hungary will have to apply for a special permit in order to acquire more than 10 per cent of local companies deemed strategically important. In a...
The Hungarian parliament adopted controversial legislation late on March 30 granting Viktor Orbán, the country’s authoritarian prime minister, sweeping emergency powers...
Hungary’s government has announced that it will not establish a separate administrative court structure, in a move that will be welcomed by a number of NGOs and European...
The EU budget proposal submitted by Finland, whose government is currently presiding over the Council of the European Union, is not acceptable for Hungary as it further...
