An EU magistrate condemned Hungary’s refugee policies Thursday, detailing a system where immigrants are made to sleep in shipping containers on the border for months before while seeking asylum.
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A Hungarian law requiring nongovernmental organizations to register with the government if they receive foreign donations was declared illegal by the European Union’s highest court on Thursday.
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The European Union can tighten rules governing workers sent outside their home countries despite protests from Hungary and Poland, an adviser to the bloc’s highest court said Thursday.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Hungary violated six journalists’ rights by suspending their credentials to cover
Read moreEurope’s top human rights court found Thursday that Romania did not discriminate in arresting two men before they could hold an illegal demonstration.
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Just in time for International Workers’ Day, the European Union’s highest court pushed back against employers forcing their employees to work more than is permitted.
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Refugees stuck in a Hungarian transit zone at the Serbian border are being unlawfully detained, an adviser to Europe’s top court said Thursday.
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A drift toward authoritarianism in Hungary and Poland during the Covid-19 crisis is raising alarms across the European Union.
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Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic violated European Union regulations by refusing to take in their share of refugees, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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Soldiers patrol the streets with their fingers on machine gun triggers. The army guards an exhibition center-turned-makeshift-hospital crowded with rows of metal beds for those infected with the coronavirus. And Serbia’s president warns residents that Belgrade’s graveyards won’t be big enough to bury the dead if people ignore his government’s lockdown orders.
Read moreA federal court in Washington denied the Hungarian government’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by 14 of nearly 825,000 Hungarian Jews subjected to the “horrors of the Holocaust at the hands of the Hungarian government.” The plaintiffs seek restitution for property seized from them during World War II.
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Hungary wrongly and unfairly drew up regulations that forced a university set up by American billionaire George Soros to move many of its classes to Vienna, a European magistrate said Thursday.
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The European Union’s highest court found Tuesday that a Hungarian tax on phone companies doesn’t violate EU law.
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Backing Google in a tax dispute Tuesday, Europe’s highest court chucked a $3.5 million fine related to advertising sales in Hungary.
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Hungarian regulations on nongovernmental organizations conflict with European Union law, a European Court of Justice magistrate held Tuesday in the latest in the clash between the EU and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
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With another member approved Monday, European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen is set to begin the new session of her executive body next month.
Read moreAlready delayed by a month, President-elect Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission took a step forward Tuesday with the initial approval of three commissioners.
Read moreProtections for freedom of speech extend into the workplace, the European Court of Human Rights clarified Tuesday in the case of a bank employee fired for writing online articles about human resources issues.
Read moreWith overcrowded Greek migrant camps facing explosive new problems, a top EU legal adviser said Thursday that Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke European Union law by refusing to comply with a refugee quota program meant to address such challenges.
Read morePrime Minister Viktor Orban’s dominant right-wing Fidesz party suffered large losses in Sunday’s local elections in Hungary.
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