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 Author aut Mészáros, Gábor Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3424-1350 Bárd, Petra Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-11-28 eng
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 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 Scheppele, Kim Lane anti-corruption Hungary Rule of Law Viktor Orbán 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/in-hungary-the-law-changes-every-day-but-it-doesnt-get-better/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20221129-001608-0 221128 10.17176/20221129-001608-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)