According to the Minister of Justice, the sources of the European Commission report are not reliable. According to him, the report was actually written by organizations that are part of a funded international network.

The European Commission’s 2020 rule of law report released today is absurd and false and cannot therefore serve as the basis for any debate on the rule of law in the European Union. The concept and methodology of the report are deficient, its resources are unbalanced and its content is unfounded “

– Justice Minister Judit Varga reacted to the report on the community page.

In its first annual report on the rule of law, the European Commission called for concern about changes in the independence of the Hungarian judiciary and emphasized that the prosecution of senior officials in corruption cases has yet to take place.

According to Varga, the selection of sources for the report is biased and not transparent. “It is unacceptable that the report was written by organizations that are part of a centrally funded international network that carries out a coordinated political campaign against Hungary. The Hungarian chapter of the report refers to 12 non-governmental organizations.

Of these, 11 NGOs have received financial support in recent years from Open Society Foundations affiliated with György Soros ”.

The report also covered relations with the Hungarian media, including the Central European Press and Media Foundation (KESMA) media conglomerate, in which pro-government media were merged without the control of competition authorities. . This, they say, threatens the diversity of the press. The Commission is also concerned that the remaining products of the independent press have recently been attacked by financial means.

The minister sees this very differently: according to him, Hungary is one of the few Member States where there is real pluralism in the media, ideological debates and public opinion.

Unlike the Western European media, which are largely dominated by liberal and left-wing media channels, conservative and Christian Democratic views also reach the public in Hungary. “

Varga wrote in the post.


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In the European Commission’s first annual report on the rule of law, the Brussels panel called for concern about changes in the independence of the Hungarian judiciary, noting that senior officials had not yet been held accountable in corruption cases. And press freedom is threatened by government action in various directions.