Hungary’s media authority has criticised recent international reports on media freedom for their “factual errors, methodological inconsistencies and one-sidedne
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said that his country has not voted on whether to allow Finland and Sweden to join NATO because Hungarian lawmakers are sick of those countries critiques of Hungarian domestic affairs
we re not talking notjust about eu budgets more normally, but substantial sums of money- in terms of covid 19 recovery funds. so, a lot of cash in- potentially at stake there. however, i would get to that - by saying that what we re looking at here is a regulation which have certain processes need to be - followed quite specifically requirements in terms . of what would count as a breach. in the eu or brussels perspective, there are deep concerns about judicial independence in poland, deep concerns i about media freedom in hungary, but the current conservative - nationalist governments, they say that the eu - is overreaching its powers, . including through the courts. i m joined by daniel tilles, editor in chief of the independent news website notes from poland. as our brussels correspondent said, there is a lot of cash at stake, not least because the commission has delayed releasing covid pandemic recovery funds. what is the actual impact this ecj ruling will have on poland and hun