On a leaked audio recording, chairman of the #Hungarian parliament #KövérLászló calls 🇭🇺opposition the most significant #NationalSecurity threat the country is facing and asks the 🇭🇺 domestic intelligence agency to mitigate this threat. (THREAD 1/5) 444.hu/2021/11/27/kov…
2/5 #Kövér addressed the leadership of the domestic intelligence/counter-intelligence agency #AVH in February 2020.
4/5 & critical #CivilSociety and to use the information gathered through surveillance for the purpose of intimidation & other #ActiveMeasures.
5/5 Partner agencies of allied countries have to consider the instrumentalization of #Hungarian#IntelligenceAgencies in domestic politics when they decide about cooperation and information sharing. @BipartisanTDWG
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In light of the frequent #CyberAttacks of apparently #Russian origin on 🇭🇺 government critical actors, this question seems to be more than legitimate.
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External #ForeignMeddling is only in a small-part responsible for #autocratization and #illiberal developments in the Western World. The main drivers of autocratization in #EU & #NATO countries are overwhelmingly domestic.
2/5 IMHO the regulation doesn't have to have retroactive effect, as it comes into force on January 1, 2021. The coming into force is not postponed, just @EU_Commission
refrains from proposing measures under the regulation, which does not exclude the monitoring of situation in MS.
3/5 @EU_Commission isn't legally bound by the declaration, but apparently is part of the political deal. As the Commission has high margin of discretion how it fulfils its task as Guardian of the Treaties, it can hardly be sued for not proposing measures for any reason.
2/12
According to the plan, an #EUCO declaration will explain/limit the scope of the #RuleofLaw conditionality regulation as well as the timeframe of its application. The deal was allegedly sealed by #Orban & #Morawiecki Tuesday evening. @RULEOFLAWpl rmf24.pl/newsamp-kompro…
3/12
Apparently #EUCO is ready to declare that member states will refrain from the application of the regulation in the Council as long as #CJEU is not ruling about the action for annulment case which will be brought forward against the regulation by 🇵🇱& 🇭🇺. @PiotrBuras1
1/5 Important thread by @PawelZerka on the domestic dimension of the #RuleOfLaw debate in #Poland.
To be honest, I feel optimistic & reassured if the hurdles are so low.
The second and the third point are only face saving measures...
2/5 ... not real conditions, and they don't require any substantial concessions.
In case of the government declaration much depends on the content. However, if the #Polish government can be satisfied by emphasizing the tie between the #RoL conditionality instrument and ...
3/5 ... the EU's financial interest, which is given anyhow, then this isn't going to be the most difficult deal of the year.
Of course much depends from Hungary, but separating #Poland from #Hungary could be one of the most important results of the #EUCO.
The #Article7 procedure is widely perceived as a completely failed, dysfunctional legal tool to enforce compliance with #EUvalues.
2/11
Therefore many see the closure of the ongoing procedures against #Hungary & #Poland as potential bargaining chips that may convince the EU's two autocratizing member states to withdraw from the blockade of the EUR 1800 bn budget deal @EU2020DE@MKarnitschnig@meyer_resende
3/11 @ManfredWeber hinted on that option last week and rumours from @EU2020DE confirm the intention of the German Council presidency to please Warsaw and Budapest that way. standaard.be/cnt/dmf2020112…