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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10578
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INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) hungary

Council of Europe - negative opinion on judicial reform

Brussels, 20/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Council of Europe's Venice Commission gave a negative opinion on 19 March on the different reforms initiated by the government of Viktor Orban. The commission highlights the real problems involving the principle of judicial independence. It identifies the extraordinary concentration of power in the hands of a single person, namely, the president of the new “national legal office”. The latter would in fact be able to influence decisions on the...

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