The second wave of legislation – Violating the rule of law
The Eötvös Károly Institute, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee assessed the second wave of legislation by Hungary’s new Parliament
Topic: Rule of law
People are free in a state where the consequences of their actions are predictable and where clean and transparent rules apply not only to them, but also to state authorities. In a state where the people know what the state expects from them, but they also know what they can expect from the state.
Hungarian NGOs turn to Council of Europe
NGOs turn to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe to express grave concern regarding the impending restriction of the powers of the Hungarian Constitutional Court.
NGOs’ letter to MPs on the amendment of the Constitution
The Eötvös Károly Institute, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union wrote a letter to Members of Parliament asking them not to pass the bills restricting the authority of the Constitutional Court, … Read more
HHC: the deprivation of the rights of the Constitutional Court cannot be justified with financial reasons
According to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s opinion measures taken against contracts, which run into good morality cannot be the ground for the unprecedented restriction of the Constitutional Court’s scope of authority. No Hungarian government is authorized to limit the tasks of the most important democratic institution and disregard its decisions because of its current political interests.
Call for civil action to protect constitutionality
The Eötvös Károly Institute and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee object the proposed restriction of the Constitutional Court’s authority.
Unexplained redundancies of civil servants is unconstitutional
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee considers the law permitting the dismissal of government employees without justification to be unconstitutional. Therefore the HHC turns to the Constitutional Court to strike it down.
Petition to the Constitutional Court concerning the unexplained dismissal of civil servants
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee considers the law permitting the dismissal of government employees without justification to be unconstitutional. Therefore the Committee turns to the Constitutional Court to strike it down.
NGO assessment of the first wave of legislation by Hungary’s new Parliament
The Eötvös Károly Institute, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and Transparency International Hungary jointly evaluated the first three months of the newly formed Parliament.