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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/d2452e96a1ead55d https://verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-commissioner-espionage-law/ Espionage, Eligibility, and the Integrity of the European Commission - The Várhelyi Affair as a Test of Institutional Self-Defence Alemanno, Alberto eng 2025-10-14 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Europäische Kommission | Luxemburg (Stadt) Brüssel Europäische Kommission. Europäisches Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung | Brüssel Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg Ungarn Vertrag über die Arbeitsweise der Europäischen Union Vertrag über die Europäische Union Várhelyi Olivér | 1972– | Diplomat Europäische Kommission | Luxemburg (Stadt) Brüssel Europäische Kommission. Europäisches Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung | Brüssel Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg Ungarn Várhelyi Olivér | 1972– | Diplomat Vertrag über die Arbeitsweise der Europäischen Union Vertrag über die Europäische Union Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The revelation that Hungarian intelligence officers allegedly operated within EU institutional premises under the watch of the current EU Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi, who at the time served as Hungary’s Permanent Representative to the European Union, poses an unprecedented challenge to the Union's constitutional framework. The Várhelyi affair poses a question the Union has never had to answer so starkly: What happens when a member state treats the institutions it helped create not as a common project, but as hostile territory to be infiltrated and undermined?