Strasbourg, 19/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - In an opinion adopted on Friday 19 June, the constitutional experts of the European Commission for Democracy through Law, commonly known as the Venice Commission, called on the Hungarian government to ensure that the principle of proportionality, as defined in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, is applied to its new legislation on the press.
“Although it is entirely legitimate for the states to set certain restrictions on obscene...