The European Union said Friday it could start legal proceedings against Hungary if concerns about the country’s latest constitutional amendments aren’t addressed.
The changes have been widely criticized by local and international rights groups for barring the Constitutional Court from considering the legality of constitutional amendments and from applying case law and legal precedents predating the new Basic Law, and for introducing a restrictive legal environment for university undergraduates and homeless people.
In reply to the earlier criticism from the EU, Hungary said the amended constitution is legally sound. It asked an independent group of foreign constitution law experts and the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters, to study the Constitution. Parallel to this, politicians of Hungary’s governing Fidesz party have been turning down criticism saying it was politically motivated.
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