Government plans repeal of lex-CEU and NGO law after European court rulings
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The Hungarian government this week announced it would amend or repeal two earlier legislative changes that caused widespread controversy and resulted in European court rulings declaring them unlawful.
Reports emerged Monday that a 2017 law on higher education, known as lex-CEU, would be modified after a ruling last year by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that found it violated European Union law. The law resulted in Central European University (CEU) - one of Hungary s premier higher education institutions - moving the majority of its operations to Vienna. The European Commission earlier launched an infringement proceeding against Hungary over the law.
Head of National Election Committee Resigns
Péter Rádi, the chairman of the National Election Committee (NVB), resigned from his post and returned his mandate as member of the body on Friday, the National Election Office said.
Rádi, a lawyer, had been a member of the NVB since 2015. He was elected chairman of the body on August 14, 2018, to replace András Patyi.
NVB will be led until the election of a new chairperson by vice chair Éva Bozsóki.
The opposition Socialist Party (MSZP) has called for immediate discussions on finding a new head of the National Election Office (NVI) to replace Ilona Pálffy who will step down from her post effective Aug 31. Addressing an online press conference on Tuesday, Zsolt Molnár, head of the party’s Budapest branch, said the appointment of the […]Continue reading
The Szájer scandal was included in the agenda at the national security session of parliament this week. Brigadier General Zsolt Bunford, the head of Hungarian intelligence, said that the Information Office knew nothing about the Szájer case. Therefore, they have no information on whether any foreign service leaked the news of the police action after the party in Brussels to the Belgian press. At the same time, security policy experts claim that Hungarian intelligence services should have known about Szájer’s lifestyle and the threat it posed, as well as that the scandal was a professionally prepared trap. While sources close to Fidesz say