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Hungary’s new Commissioner for Fundamental Rights should be selected in a transparent and merit-based procedure
Civil society organisations warn that the functioning of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, the country’s national human rights institution, continues to fall short of international standards, failing to protect human rights and vulnerable communities. They remind that the new Commissioner, who will have to be nominated shortly, should be selected in a transparent and merit-based procedure.
Hungarian CSOs contribute to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law Report
For the sixth year in a row, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union is contributing to the European Commission’s annual Rule of Law Report in coordination with other Hungarian human rights and anti-corruption CSOs in the framework of the stakeholder consultation launched by the European Commission
Hungarian CSOs contribute to the European Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law Report
For the fifth year in a row, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union is
contributing to the European Commission’s annual Rule of Law Report in
coordination with other Hungarian human rights and anti-corruption CSOs.
The Proposed Regime Defence Law is Bound to Fail
The leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group yesterday presented a package of laws that are called “defense of sovereignty” but are in fact designed to protect the arbitrary exercise of power. The bill is part of the government’s attempt to silence critical voices. This is nothing new, but the government’s means of doing so are increasingly crude. This law is in fact a regime defence law.
Corruption Monitor - Summary from March 2020 to March 2022
In Hungary, the erosion of the constitutional state and the elevation of corruption to the status of a public policy tool are happening simultaneously, in close connection with each other, mostly hidden behind some alleged public interest objective. In the last two years, this alleged public interest objective has been to control the pandemic. K-Monitor and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union have been documenting this process since the start of the pandemics. The summary and final report of this work covers the period from March 2020 to March 2022. In our report, we present the most significant changes in the last two years that have increased opacity and hampered the fight against corruption, budgetary irregularities, the outsourcing of public assets and measures that disproportionately affect opposition municipalities.
Russian disinformation in Hungarian public broadcast media: complaint to the European Commission
The devastating war in Ukraine is one of the key challenges of this time in Europe, and especially in Hungary that shares a border with the attacked country. Russia has been using state financed propaganda to disseminate disinformation worldwide. Despite the restrictive measures put in place by the European Union targeting Russia Today and Sputnik, Russian war propaganda has been continuously disseminated in Hungary. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and Political Capital filed a joint complaint to the European Commission.
Hungarian NGOs contribute to the European Commission’s second Rule of Law Report
Eight Hungarian NGOs submitted a joint contribution in the stakeholder consultation launched by the European Commission for its second annual Rule of Law Report. The Commission’s Rule of Law Report pertaining to 2019 identified substantial problems severely threatening the rule of law in Hungary in all four areas examined. According to the NGOs, the situation has deteriorated further in 2020. They trust that in this year’s report, the Commission will make concrete, enforceable recommendations to EU Member States, hence also for Hungary on how to advance rule of law in the EU.
Rule of law and democracy suffer hit across the EU in year of COVID pandemic
Rule
of law has worsened in 2020 compared to 2019, in part due to COVID
which exacerbated existing problems
Governments
with authoritarian tendencies in Hungary,
Poland and Slovenia have used the pandemic as an
excuse to weaken democratic standards further
Some
countries with serious democratic failings like the Czech
Republic, Slovakia and Romania are seeing reforms
that could potentially result in improvements to
judicial independence, anti-corruption, and the freedoms of campaigners
and citizens’ groups
Threats to
media freedom and free speech, attacks on journalists
and activists, repression of protests and free
speech, and limitations on access to public interest
information are alarming in many EU countries,
including some with traditionally strong democratic records such as
France, Germany, Italy and Spain
Surveilled but not consulted: Citizens living under constant technological surveillance
Increasingly, and almost always without social debate, facial recognition systems are being used by states to monitor and track their citizens. Inadequate regulation violates fundamental rights, while technological inaccuracies reinforce discrimination. On Data Protection Day, the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) published its report summarising international experiences, in cooperation with the HCLU – as the problem also affects Hungary.
Hungary’s anti-NGO law still in effect – 3 key recommendations to the European Commission
No steps have been taken by Hungary to comply with CJEU’s judgement. We remind EC it’s time to act.
State of danger is followed by Transitional Act - Joint analysis of the provisions
We cannot bid farewell to the notion of the Government ruling by decree even now, after the ordinary operation of the legal order have been restored.
INCLO welcomes EU court ruling on Hungary's anti-NGO law
INCLO welcomes EU court ruling, calling on governments to revoke hostile NGO legislation and refrain from adopting such laws.
Never-ending story?
Rapid analysis of the Bills T/10747 and T/10748.
Hungarian NGOs’ contribution to European Commission’s first Rule of Law Report
Eight Hungarian NGOs, participating in the stakeholder consultation launched by the European Commission for its first annual Rule of Law Report, trust that the EC will make concrete, enforceable recommendations to EU Member States, hence also for Hungary on how to advance rule of law in the EU.
Advocate General of the CJEU: Hungarian law that restricts NGO financing from abroad is incompatible with EU law
According to the Court of Justice Advocate General’s opinion, the fact that under the Hungarian 2017 Lex NGO, civil society organisations receiving foreign donations are subject to restrictions violates the right to the protection of private life and the right to freedom of association, and infringes the principle of free movement of capital. This is not justified by the general interest objectives relied on by the government of Hungary. Based on the AG opinion published today, the Court of Justice of the European Union is likely to decide that the Lex NGO is in breach of the EU law.
Public hearing is next step in the fight against the stigmatization of Hungarian civil society actors
The action against the act stigmatizing Hungarian civil society organizations has entered a new phase: on 22 October the Court of Justice of the European Union will conduct a public hearing on the case.
