The European Commission’s rule of law report relies on “loaned” documents. The sources it relies on determine its reliability and objectivity, the Justice Minister posted on Facebook on Thursday.

According to Judit Varga, in the Hungarian chapter of the report, the European Commission relies on twelve non-governmental organisations’ fourteen documents. Thirteen documents originate from eleven non-governmental organisations which have in recent years received financial grants from the Open Society Foundations tied to George Soros.

“The list may sound familiar: Helsinki Committee, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, EKKINT, Mérték,” she added, and this is only the surface. The report frequently refers to the Commission’s earlier reports and the documents of international organisations.

“If we take a close look at these sources, we will find the same organisations there as well. The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, the Venice Commission and GRECO, too, frequently quote Soros organisations. The situation is that it is these organisations that composed our rule of law report. Even the parts which seemingly originate from elsewhere,” she highlighted.

According to Ms. Varga, Hungary did everything it could in order for the rule of law report to meet at least the minimum requirements of objectivity and balance.

She added that during the course of the year, they sent detailed analyses to the Commission in order to facilitate the drafting of the report.

“The Commission effectively disregarded our contribution. Therefore, on its website the Ministry of Justice published these analyses so that anyone interested could have access to information on the true state of the rule of law in Hungary,” the Minister wrote.

(Ministry of Justice/MTI)