ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Csongor István Nagy

Csongor István Nagy is a Braudel senior research fellow at the EUI in Florence, professor of law at the University of Szeged and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, research chair at the Center for Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network and recurrent visiting professor at the CEU and the Sapientia University of Transylvania.

POSTS BY Csongor István Nagy

06 December 2021

Csongor István Nagy

Questions of Integrity

Many have rightly criticized the Commission for failing to robustly defend the EU’s founding values from academic freedom, to media freedom, to judicial independence, to the rights of refugees or the LGBT community. In these discussions, the Commission’s failure to take action against another form of discrimination is generally ignored: discrimination against national minorities. Looking at the example of Hungarian communities in other member states, this post highlights the Commission’s failure to defend ethnic or national minorities against discrimination. This is in stark contrast with the fact that the protection of and respect for minorities is a founding value of the EU, ranked equally to democracy, rule of law and human dignity. Continue reading >>

20 November 2020

Csongor István Nagy

The Commission’s Al Capone Tricks

In its judgement dealing with the Central European University, the CJEU had to employ a trick to address the rule of law issue at stake: It found that Hungary had violated the General Agreement on Trade in Services. The legal trick was succesful but in reality, the ruling came too late. The Central European University has moved to Vienna and will not return to Hungary. Continue reading >>

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