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The new media-press regulation plan is unfounded, and fails to meet established European freedom of press standards. Moreover, the so-called “media package” sponsored by two right-wing MPs from the governing party (Antal Rogán, András Cser-Palkovics), contains bills with several unconstitutional clauses. The bills would bring about significant changes to the functioning of printed press, television, radio and part of the internet as well. The HCLU disapproves of the process by which the new parliamentary majority has gone about building a completely new regulation plan without any previous consultation, open debate with stakeholders, experts or journalists.  This is foolhardy at best, since the bills represent an attempt at a far-reaching overhaul in media regulation.

More than 100 organizations from 23 European countries last week asked EU Commissioners Malmström, Reding and Kroes in a joint letter to “propose the repeal of the EU requirements regarding data retention in favor of a system of expedited preservation and targeted collection of traffic data".

The legal regulation of marijuana is not sci-fi any more: the potential models of legalization are here. Watch HCLU's new video on harborside, an outstanding medical marijuana center in Oakland, California.

Венгерский Союз Гражданских Свобод (HCLU) представляет полные версии трёх презентаций международных и российских экспертов в сфере правового анализа недоступности метадона в России, представленных на Московской конференции по вопросам ВИЧ/СПИДа в 2009 году. / The HCLU presents three uncut presentations from the 2009 Moscow AIDS conference by international and Russian experts on the legal analysis of the unavailability of methadone in Russia.

Russia is under strong international pressure to introduce opiate substitution treatment - watch our video and take action!

Some of Hungary's major anti-corruption NGOs have turned to EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia. The NGOs are concerned about a giant project financed with state aid and therefore urged the Prime Minister to immediately suspend the 'murky' 130 mn EUR investment, financed by an EU fund and the Hungarian Development Bank (MFB). Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary finally ordered the Ministry of National Development and Economy to make the feasibility study of the project public.

Needle exchange programs in the US - watch our movie to learn how harm reduction protects communities from death and disease!

HCLU presents the results of its video advocacy work in 2009, in a new report published today.

How will a post-prohibition world look like? - learn from our video