The European Commission has sent a formal notification to the Hungarian government to launch the so-called conditionality mechanism, which links the disbursement of EU funds to the rule of law, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in Strasbourg on Tuesday at the European Parliament (EP) plenary session. As the Hungarian state news agency […]
The European Commission has concluded that Hungary's decision to veto the acquisition of the Hungarian subsidiaries of the AEGON Group by Vienna Insurance Group AG Wiener Versicherung Gruppe (VIG) breached Article 21 of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR), which confers upon the Commission exclusive competence for concentrations having Union dimension. According to the European Commission, […]
In his regular Friday morning appearance on state radio, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán announced that "we must acknowledge the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the migrant quota lawsuit," in which the legality of the EU migrant quota system was upheld.
The European Commission (EC) is to examine whether the recently enacted amendment to the Hungarian higher education law complies with the fundamental values of the European Union. The EC will also look into policies directed against the EU.
Eurostat is maintaining the reservation on the quality of the data reported by Hungary in relation to the sector classification of Eximbank which needs to be reclassified inside the general government sector resulting in an increase in government debt.
Only about 43,5% of the over eight million people eligible to vote cast a NO vote at a referendum to the government's question allowing EU quotas for migrants' settlement into Hungary, therefore, the result is invalid as the validity limit is 50%.
Hungarian President János Áder has set the date for the government-initiated referendum on the EU’s mandatory migrant quota scheme for October 2. Opposition parties call for a boycott as they consider it a vote against EU membership.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing accusations of fraudulently using EUR two million of EU funding after he opened a vintage railway between his two childhood villages, the British newspaper 'The Telegraph' reports.
The Hungarian government is in a professional dispute with Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office, over lending by Eximbank, Hungarian Economy Minister Mihály Varga is quoted by the financial website portfolio.hu.
Until the conclusion of the probe the European Commission (EC) is currently conducting in the issue of possible distortions of competition, the Hungarian government will not draw from a EUR 10 billion loan facility provided by Russia.
The Hungarian government decided to suspend the the application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (Dublin III), which requires an EU country to take back refugees who have travelled from it to another EU country.
The European Commission opened infringement proceedings against Hungary last week over the country’s new electronic toll collection (ETC) system and the unsatisfactory implementation of several EU directives, the MTI news agency reports.
It is inconsistent with the regulations of the European Union that Hungary made it possible to distill 50 liters of pálinka (a fruit brandy) per year without the payment of excise duty. The Hungarian government tries to settle the issue with the EU.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the radical lowering of the retirement age for Hungarian judges constitutes unjustified discrimination on grounds of age. The Hungarian Constitutional Court already deemed this law unconstitutional in July this year.
The European Commission is ready to close the infringement procedure against Hungary concerning issues related to the central bank, paving the way for talks to begin on IMF/EU financial aid, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported.
