Tag: Hungary
#Hungary ruling party doesn’t belong in Europe’s centre-right: #Juncker
The party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban should leave the mainstream European center-right grouping, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said, comparing Orban to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, writes Thomas Escritt. The unusually sharp comments, made at a public meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, came after the Hungarian government unveiled a new poster campaign […]
#Hungary ‘is not Orbán’s personal fiefdom’
Major protests are still ongoing in Hungary against the crackdown on civil liberties and the erosion of the rule of law by the governing authorities. People first took to the street last week after the adoption of the so-called ‘slavery law’ that allows employers to issue 400 hours of overtime to employees per year that […]
Albania, Hungary, Malta and Turkey among key opinions adopted by #VeniceCommission
The final plenary session of the year for the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission included several high profile opinions, including for Albania, Hungary, Malta and Turkey. The Venice Commission legal experts find that the power of the prime minister in Malta widely overshadows that of other government bodies, including the president, parliament, cabinet of ministers, […]
#DontBeAMule – More than 1,500 #MoneyMules identified in worldwide #MoneyLaundering sting
Working together with Europol, Eurojust and the European Banking Federation (EBF), police forces from over 20 States arrested 168 people (so far) as part of a coordinated money laundering crackdown, the European Money Mule Action (EMMA). This international swoop, the fourth of its kind, was intended to tackle the issue of ‘money mules’, who […]
#Gruevski – Hungary offers asylum to convicted former-FYROM prime minister
Leading S&D MEPs are deeply concerned by the news that the Hungarian government has granted asylum to the former Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski (pictured). Gruevski, who left power in 2016 following widespread protests, fled to Hungary after being sentenced to prison in Skopje on corruption charges. In a joint statement, S&D Group vice-president Tanja […]
#ALDE President Verhofstadt launches billboard truck against #Orbán and his Fidesz party
In response to the ongoing and unrelenting media campaign by Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán and his Fidesz party attacking EU values, while building a corrupted illiberal state, Guy Verhofstadt, the president of the ALDE group in the European Parliament, will today (6 November) launch a response in the form of a billboard truck which will […]
#EAPM – #HTA debate moves to Sofia for key conference
As the debate on EU-wide health technology assessment (HTA) reaches Council level after a positive vote on the Commission’s proposals at the latest Strasbourg plenary, the Bulgarian capital Sofia will host a conference on HTA’s implications for personalised medicine, writes European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) Executive Director Denis Horgan. The Brussels-based EAPM, and its […]
