EP Rule of Law Delegation Visit to Hungary: Interference, Not Investigation

EP Rule of Law Delegation Visit to Hungary: Interference, Not Investigation

The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) made its ‘usual’ pre-election-year visit to Hungary to assess the state of the rule of law in the country. The visiting delegation was led by Tineke Strik, a Dutch Green MEP and a fitting successor to Judith Sargentini, who authored the first European Parliament report on Hungary’s rule of law situation in 2018. That report prompted the Parliament to urge the…

The LIBE delegation leader excluded the public from the meeting with the head of the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty. According to Tamás Lánczi, this prevented Hungarian and European citizens from getting a credible picture of the conceptual procedure being carried out against Hungary.

EU delegation to Hungary given anti-surveillance phone cases, met with hostility by state bodies - DailyNewsHungary

Members of a European Parliament delegation visiting Hungary were offered special phone cases designed to block surveillance, according to Politico. The five-member delegation from the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties travelled to Hungary for a three-day mission to assess the state of democracy, rule of law, and fundamental rights. According to Politico, one MEP confirmed that the Parliament’s security service provided them with Faraday pouches…