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Digital Freedom Committee scrutinises rule of law guarantees
Ministry of Justice, October 5, 2020 1:20 PM
The government set up the Digital Freedom Committee in the spring not to censor Facebook, but to scrutinise rule of law guarantees on the Internet, the Justice Minister said at a conference held on Friday in Budapest which was also streamed online.
European Commission’s rule of law report relies on “loaned” documents
Ministry of Justice, October 5, 2020 1:19 PM
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.
European Commission has no competence to draft reports analysing state of rule of law
Ministry of Justice, October 5, 2020 1:19 PM
The European Commission has no competence to prepare comparative analyses regarding the state of the rule of law and to impose consequences on Member States based on their findings, the Justice Minister said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’ on Monday.
“We want to stop migration”
Ministry of Justice, October 5, 2020 1:17 PM
Justice Minister Judit Varga gave the German liberal weekly Die Zeit an interview entitled “We want to stop migration” which was released in the weekly’s Thursday edition.
“George Soros sponsors” organisations providing background documents for European Commission’s rule of law report
Ministry of Justice, October 5, 2020 8:47 AM
George Soros’s foundations support and sponsor the organisations that provided background documents for the European Commission’s rule of law report, Pál Völner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice told journalists on Friday.
An overview of the state of the rule of law in Hungary
Ministry of Justice, October 1, 2020 12:43 PM
An overview of the state of the rule of law in Hungary.
European Commission’s rule of law report is absurd and untrue
Ministry of Justice, October 1, 2020 8:59 AM
On Wednesday on her social media account, Justice Minister Judit Varga described the European Commission’s rule of law report as absurd and untrue.
German proposal related to set of conditions tied to new EU budget is unacceptable
Ministry of Justice, September 30, 2020 2:07 PM
The German proposal related to the set of conditions tied to the new EU budget is unacceptable as it represents a unilateral amendment to the EU Treaties, Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote on her Facebook account on Tuesday.
Hungary fully supports and realises European solidarity
Ministry of Justice, September 29, 2020 8:59 AM
Hungary fully supports and itself realises European solidarity, Justice Minister Judit Varga stated at a conference held in Salzburg on Monday as part of a panel discussion entitled “Europe, coronavirus and democracy: threats and opportunities” where one of the questions was whether there was enough solidarity among EU Member States.
Migration is not an alternative for Europe
Ministry of Justice, September 29, 2020 8:55 AM
Distribution on the basis of mandatory quotas “has always been a red line” for Hungary, and in this Austria is one of its most important allies, Judit Varga, head of the Ministry of Justice which is also responsible for EU affairs told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday regarding the European Commission’s migration and asylum pact presented two days ago after she received in her office Karoline Edtstadler, Austrian Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution at the Federal Chancellery.