Originally published on the website of the European Center for Law and Justice on 24 January 2023.
In the coming days, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is due to elect the Polish judge who will sit on the European Court…
Interview with Janez Janša, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS): "The political processes in Europe over the past decade and a half turned away from democracy."
Janez Janša has been one of…
Hungarian Constitutional Court says national authorities must make up for EU inaction on immigration
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Part 1: Warsaw demands EU treaties be complied with and refuses to pay fines imposed by the ECJ
Part 2: EU case law vs national constitution: rulings…
Poland – The conflict between the President of the Polish Supreme Audit Office (Najwyższa Izba Kontroli, NIK) – Poland’s highest audit institution – and the Morawiecki government continues to escalate, now with a request for a waiver of Marian Banaś’s immunity. “This…
Poland – The European Commission has given Poland until 16 August to suspend its Supreme Court’s new Disciplinary Chamber, failing which it will again refer the matter to the ECJ to apply a daily fine. The financial penalty will increase with each…
Hungary – The Hungarian law on paedophilia and the protection of children concerning sexuality, which was passed by the unicameral Országház (Hungarian parliament) on 15 June, has been written about extensively and has caused heated debate. There have been countless reactions from…
Austria – Following a complaint lodged by the FPÖ (Austrian populist party), the administrative tribunal of Vienna has ruled on 24 March that PCR tests could not be considered as reliable way of diagnosing an illness or the level of contagiousness of…
This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 14, 2021.
A concept idolized by the left is now an arbitrary political too.
Though Hungary was caught in the left-wing crossfire in the European Union near the end of…
For the second time in a short while, a decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has led to a referral to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, which will be asked to define the limits of national sovereignty.
Poland - The Polish…
Poland - On January 27, the European Commission announced that it had moved to the second stage of the infringement procedure against Poland regarding the Disciplinary Chamber created within the Supreme Court as part of the reforms of the judiciary introduced by…
Europe - “The ‘systemic threats to the rule of law’ and of democracy may not be where one would think”, and “it will have escaped no one's notice that such power left in the hands of the European institutions can be turned…
Interview with Tomasz Przesławski, Polish Supreme Court judge defending the judicial reforms carried out by PiS: "Many of the current actions of representatives of the legal professions can be seen as a threat to basic legal values, causing chaos in the legal…