🚨🚨 This is a quite unsurprising action by the EU Commission but this is still a significant case in terms of broader #ruleoflaw enforcement in the EU. Short 🧵

SPstevepeers.bsky.socialOct 3, 2024 10:04am

EU Commission challenges Hungarian "defence of sovereignty" law before CJEU

On 12 Dec 2023 the Hungarian National Assembly adopted the Defence of Sovereignty Law empowering a new Office to carry out investigations including relating to ‘any activity that is foreign-funded and that may influence the outcome of elections, the will of voters or supports such activities'. /2