nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221129-001608-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221128s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221129-001608-0 doi eng 342 23 Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut In Hungary, the Law Changes Every Day but It Doesn’t Get Better - Empty Amendments to the Just-Enacted Anti-Corruption Laws Scheppele, Kim Lane Verfassungsblog 2022-11-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The EU Commission has agreed with us that the laws that we have analyzed in our series of four blogposts did not in fact constitute an effective anti-corruption plan. And the Commission has attached a €13.3 billion price tag to non-compliance. Now the Hungarian government is scrambling to unlock this cash by introducing two additional laws that attempt to address the Commission’s concerns. But these new laws repeat the errors of the prior laws. They create the appearance of an independent corruption-fighting system while digging in political allies at all of the chokepoints and tying up whistleblowers and anti-corruption fighters in red tape. The new laws do not make things better and they may even make things worse. CC BY-SA 4.0 anti-corruption Hungary Rule of Law Viktor Orbán Mészáros, Gábor Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3424-1350 Bárd, Petra Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/in-hungary-the-law-changes-every-day-but-it-doesnt-get-better/ raw object