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Hungarian Amendment Against EU Resettlement Fails
November 10, 2016
The Hungarian Government's proposed constitutional amendment seeking to counter the EU's migrant resettlement policies by establishing that immigration policy is a national competence has failed to secure the necessary number of votes for adoption in the country's Parliament.
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German Minister Details EU Defense Plans
November 09, 2016
Amid concerns by US and British officials regarding what they perceive to be the duplicative nature of EU defense institutions, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has called for the EU to bolster its support to a "European security and defence union" that "should work in a complementary fashion" with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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CoE Body Criticizes Hungary's Migrant Detention Practices
November 09, 2016
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has issued a report listing its concerns regarding the conditions of detention of migrants in Hungary and questioning whether the country's border policies accorded with its international human rights obligations.
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ECtHR: Hungary Violated NGO's Right to Information
November 09, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that the refusal by Hungarian law enforcement authorities to disclose to a nongovernmental organization data on their selection of public defenders for the purpose of a study on the quality of the defenders' work violated the NGO's right to freedom of expression.
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ECtHR: Sanctions Violated Hungarian MP's Speech Rights
November 08, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that the Hungarian Parliament violated the right of a Member from an opposition political party to freedom of expression by fining him for making an insulting gesture during a session and for later refusing to permit him to make a speech accusing the majority party of criminal conduct without recourse to a remedy.
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