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Ungarns Verfassungsgericht: Das Imperium schlägt zurück
Das ungarische Verfassungsgericht, so scheint es, ist trotz aller Versuche der Fidesz-Regierung, es zu schwächen, immer noch zu effektivem Widerstand in der Lage. Doch die Regierung mit ihrer...
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Guys with Guns vs. Guys with Reports: Egyptian and Hungarian Comparisons
In Egypt, the military just ousted the democratically elected president of the country and suspended the new constitution. In Hungary, the European Parliament just adopted a report, which harshly...
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Guys with Guns vs. Guys with Reports: Egyptian and Hungarian Comparisons
In Egypt, the military just ousted the democratically elected president of the country and suspended the new constitution. In Hungary, the European Parliament just adopted a report, which harshly...
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Illiberal Democracy and Beyond in Hungary
In his speech, delivered before an ethnic Hungarian audience at the 25th Bálványos Free Summer University and Youth Camp in Băile Tușnad (Tusnádfürdő), Romania, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán...
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Illiberal Democracy and Beyond in Hungary
In his speech, delivered before an ethnic Hungarian audience at the 25th Bálványos Free Summer University and Youth Camp in Băile Tușnad (Tusnádfürdő), Romania, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán...
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Viktor Orbán’s rampage to attract more far right voters
The latest dangerous ideas of PM Orbán and his government to reintroduce the death penalty in Hungary, to legitimate the disclosure of immigrants through the foreseeable result of a ‘national...
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Viktor Orbán’s rampage to attract more far right voters
The latest dangerous ideas of PM Orbán and his government to reintroduce the death penalty in Hungary, to legitimate the disclosure of immigrants through the foreseeable result of a ‘national...
View ArticleThe Invalid Anti-Migrant Referendum in Hungary
On Sunday, 2 October, Hungarian voters went to the polls to answer one referendum question: “Do you want to allow the European Union to mandate the relocation of non-Hungarian citizens to Hungary...
View ArticleThe Hungarian Constitutional Court and Constitutional Identity
Ever since the 2010 parliamentary elections Hungary has set off on the journey to became an ‘illiberal’ member state of the EU, which does not comply with the shared values of rule of law and...
View ArticleLegally sophisticated authoritarians: the Hungarian Lex CEU
On 28 March the Hungarian government tabled an amendment to the Act on National Higher Education in Parliament. Even though the draft is formulated in normative terms, the only targeted institution is...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing? Legal and Political Schooling for the Hungarian...
On 26 April the European Parliament held a debate on Hungary. In his opening remarks First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said that the Commission shares the worries and concerns of many people within...
View ArticleMemory Politics in Hungary: Political Justice without Rule of Law
After the 1989-90 democratic transition, Poland and Hungary were the first to introduce the institutional framework of constitutional democracy and of transitional justice. For a number of reasons,...
View ArticleThe Hungarian Constitutional Court betrays Academic Freedom and Freedom of...
On 5 June the Hungarian Constitutional Court issued two injunction decisions, almost identical in their texts, which suspend the constitutional review procedures against two laws enacted in early...
View ArticleFidesz and Faith: Ethno-Nationalism in Hungary
“The protection of Hungary’s self-identity and its Christian culture is the duty of all state organizations” says one of the new provisions of the 7th Amendment that was adopted on 20 June to change...
View ArticleHuman Dignity for Good Hungarians Only
On 4 June 2019 the packed Constitutional Court of Hungary issued an astonishingly inhuman decision: The criminalization and eventual imprisonment of homeless people, the Court declared, is in line...
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The Tyranny of Values or the Tyranny of One-Party States?
In his contribution ‘Fundamentals on Defending European Values,’ Armin von Bogdandy counsels caution. The Treaty on European Union may have included legally operative fundamental principles that are...
View ArticleDon’t Be Fooled by Autocrats!
On 9 April, Vera Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for values and transparency with lead responsibility for rule of law, gave an interview to Euronews on democracy in the pandemic. A...
View ArticleOrbán is Still the Sole Judge of his Own Law
Our 22 April post on the Verfassungblog about Viktor Orbán’s state of emergency generated a thoughtful reply from Dr. Dániel Karsai, a well-respected Hungarian lawyer. We appreciate the chance to...
View ArticleFrom Emergency to Disaster
This week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government put before the Hungarian Parliament two draft laws that, if passed, would end the state of emergency and create a new legal framework for handing...
View ArticleUngarns Verfassungsgericht: Das Imperium schlägt zurück
Das ungarische Verfassungsgericht, so scheint es, ist trotz aller Versuche der Fidesz-Regierung, es zu schwächen, immer noch zu effektivem Widerstand in der Lage. Doch die Regierung mit ihrer...
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