nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220510-182253-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220510s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220510-182253-0 doi eng 342 23 Mészáros, Gábor Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3424-1350 Never-Ending Exception - The Ukraine War Perpetuates Hungary’s Government by Decree Mészáros, Gábor Verfassungsblog 2022-05-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The planned 10th amendment to the Hungarian constitution aims to rewrite the current rules of Article 53, which allows the government to declare a state of danger (and rule by decree as it did during the last two years) in the event of a natural or industrial disaster endangering lives and property, or to mitigate the consequences thereof. According to the proposed new rules, the government will also be able to declare this kind of emergency ‘in the event of armed conflict, war or humanitarian catastrophe in a neighbouring country’. This is just the latest chapter in the story of the democratic and rule-of-law backsliding in Hungary. CC BY-SA 4.0 Hungarian Constitution Russian War against Ukraine State of Danger State of Emergency Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/never-ending-exception/ raw object