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15 Feb, 6 tweets, 3 min read
I agree 100% with @dreynders’ sentiments here & hope EU will finally act, but so far EU & @EU_Commission specifically have in fact tolerated the destruction of press freedom In Hungary for years - first the closing of independent newspapers, then news websites, now radio
2016 leading opposition newspaper closed nytimes.com/2016/10/12/wor…
2020 Leading independent news website taken over by gov cronies nytimes.com/2020/07/24/wor…
And now largest independent radio station forced off the air: cnn.com/2021/02/09/eur…
As @RSF_inter has documented, the level of gov control of the media in Hungary is “unprecedented in an EU member state” rsf.org/en/news/level-…
All of this has been widely known and reported in international media and by NGOs for years, but @EU_Commission has done almost nothing and has sat in competition complaints brought by @javorbenedek and others mertek.eu/en/2019/01/29/…

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13 Jul 20
A quick, depressing 🧵 on what to expect in next steps toward autocracy in Poland. I hope @fromTGA is right and Poles will defend their democracy. However, I think things will get much worse and Poland will become an autocracy like Hungary 1/n
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@ChristophMllers Hi Chistoph. Let me clarify (& this is clear in the linked articles): 1. I never say & don't mean to imply that judges of BVerfG or those supporting their position are racists or autocrats. My point is that BVerfG is advocating a nullification doctrine like Calhoun's 1/n
@ChristophMllers 2/n. also my point isn't that the esteemed BVerfG is anything like the captured constitutional courts of HU or PL (the latter isn't even a court as @ProfPech has shown). My point is that if they can nullify, it gives an excuse for those others to do the same
@ChristophMllers @ProfPech 3/n. and as i say in thread and articles, if all 27 constitutional courts can simply nullify what deem to be ultra vires EU acts/ ECJ rulings, then the EU legal order can't survive.
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11 May 20
1. A long 🧵 on what is going on & what is at stake in dispute between @EUCourtPress & @EU_Commission & German @BVerfG. It is a showdown over question of "Kompetenz Kompetenz", & the survival of EU legal order is at stake. The ECJ is right & BVerfG's position is untenable
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Orbán's latest ploys using emergency powers... some quick thoughts. He will starve local govs of revenue by taking away motor vehicle tax. He can then find ways to transfer funds back to Fidesz controlled local govs while screwing opposition controlled ones like Budapest 1/n
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Smart takes on this from @panyiszabolcs & @shaunwalker7 - watch for their reporting on these developments. 3/n
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