Judgment in Case C-769/22 Commission v Hungary on restrictions to LGBTI+ content allegedly aimed at protecting children
🎥 💬 President Koen Lenaerts explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👇
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People are impatient - everyone demands accountability and compensation; they want heads to roll, the faces of the fallen system gone, and the damage repaid. Expectations are high, sometimes unrealistically so, and meeting them won’t be easy. /3
We are already in the midst of the transition, so the question is no longer just about change, but about scale: how much of the system can realistically be rebuilt, and at what pace? /2
It’s striking how deeply the Orbán regime has embedded itself across society — from “civil” organizations to sports federations to cultural institutions. This isn’t just about politics at the top. It’s about networks of influence that reach into everyday life. 🧵
💥Days after Viktor Orbán lost reelection, Hungary's data protection authority is investigating Webloc — an Israeli tool that harvests mobile ad data for mass surveillance, likely violating GDPR. We exposed its use by Hungary on @vsquare.bsky.social with @citizenlab.ca: vsquare.org/goulash-with...
Ambassadors meet on Wednesday, with Hungary expected to lift its veto on the implementing rules for the loan, paving the way to finalise the deal – including the legal agreement and payment timeline – by early May.
He said this in a press conference.
Péter Magyar asked the @ec.europa.eu to suspend the fine imposed on Hungary by the EU Court of Justice due to the Orbán government's asylum policy. “At first they shook their heads, saying it couldn’t be done, but I kept insisting until they said they would try,” he said. 😲
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👩💼👩💼The Tisza Party has nominated a woman for the position of speaker of parliament and has elected a woman to lead its 141-member parliamentary group. Péter Magyar announced that the new government will have 16 ministries.
Fidesz’s former power brokers are now fretting that the new government will persecute them, send the tax authorities after them, summon them for questioning, and unleash its propaganda on them.
What on earth makes them think that?! 🤔
The next Hungarian government would need to submit a new recovery fund spending plan to the @ec.europa.eu by the end of May, a Tisza party official told @euractiv.com adding that administrative capacity remained the main constraint. EU Commission officials held talks in Budapest at the weekend.
Imagine if this Orbán-loyal figure were treated in Brussels the way EU officials have been treated in Orbán’s Hungary: constant attacks, crude rhetoric, and open hostility. Instead, colleagues assess his performance professionally and with restraint. That contrast says everything.
🥶 EU will freeze a €1.5 billion pot of funds earmarked for Serbia over controversial judicial reforms Belgrade pushed through in January, @politico.eu reports. Brussel demands that Serbia “align its judicial laws with the Venice Commission’s recommendations.”
I’ve rarely seen such raw, collective emotion unleashed at this scale. The demand for accountability is justified. But justice needs clarity and restraint to hold its ground. END
But alongside truth comes something darker: a tidal wave of rage. Schadenfreude. Revenge. A fierce, almost primal insistence that none of this should go unpunished, that escape must be impossible. It’s not just reckoning, it’s retribution. 3/
Voices long silenced are now impossible to ignore: dismissed civil servants, humiliated citizens, ridiculed journalists. The stories we always knew were there - corruption, abuse, quiet cruelty - are erupting all at once. 2/
There’s a palpable “mob” mentality surging across social media in the aftermath of the Orbán era. Former power brokers, propagandists, and loyal enablers are being dragged into the light - facing demands for accountability and public shaming.🧵
The rally across Hungarian assets reflected “a general positivity trade on what this means for Hungary, as being structural change, a pro-EU stance and a potential to access a large amount of the EU funds”, said Roger Mark, analyst at fund firm Ninety One.
He still doesn't feel or understand what happened on Sunday. He used to have a keen sense of what people wanted, but now he has lost all touch with reality
He also said that the parliamentary group that made it into parliament will be restructured, and many of the elected representatives could be replaced. The way I see it, this could also mean that Orbán won’t take up his seat either, but we’ll see.
Orbán said that it is not he, but the Fidesz community that will decide his future. He said that the party and the national movement behind it will be completely reorganized in the coming months.
Viktor Orbán’s live interview starts in just over half an hour. Do you think:
1. He'll announce his resignation
2. He'll announce that he won’t resign.
3. He won’t even mention it.
‼️ Tonight at 7:00 p.m., Viktor Orbán will give a live interview on the Patriota YouTube channel and on his Facebook page. He will speak about “the past, the present, but mostly the future”, he wrote on his Facebook page.
Feels like a major symbolic step that the @ec.europa.eu is sending a delegation to negotiate EU funds with PM-elect Péter Magyar’s team, while Viktor Orbán’s government is still formally in office - even if only in a caretaker role. The urgency is understandable, but the optics are hard to ignore 👋
The European Commission is dispatching officials to Budapest to start negotiations with Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar on unblocking billions in EU funds for Hungary.
The Commission's delegation will meet with Tisza party officials on Friday, Commission spokesperson told @politico.eu
It looks like Orbán has given up on taking over Brussels, hasn't he? 🔚
These people didn’t stay silent because they didn’t know. They stayed silent because it paid off. It’s fascinating watching once-powerful men crawl away in shame. Am I happy about it? I’m not sure. But it’s hard not to enjoy watching them panic and run, after all the damage they helped cause. END
Orbán’s former spokesman, Bertalan Havasi, now says he was “just an executor.” Funny — this is the same man who once threw me out of Orbán's press conference in Brussels after my newspaper, Népszabadság was shut down, saying I had no place there anymore. 3/
But then why didn’t you speak up then? Why only now, one or two days after your humiliating defeat? Ambassadors suddenly “realize” they weren’t serving a party, but their country. Really? Then why the angry propaganda replies to foreign journalists during all these years? 2/
👋 More and more Fidesz insiders are jumping from the sinking ship. Suddenly they blame each other, the circumstances, the party leadership, even Viktor Orbán himself. And of course they all claim they “saw it coming” long ago. 🧵