nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/d2452e96a1ead55d DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251014s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/d2452e96a1ead55d doi eng 342 23 Alemanno, Alberto Author aut Espionage, Eligibility, and the Integrity of the European Commission - The Várhelyi Affair as a Test of Institutional Self-Defence Alemanno, Alberto Verfassungsblog 2025-10-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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? CC BY-SA 4.0 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 (DE-588)1024466-9 gnd Europäische Kommission | Luxemburg (Stadt) Brüssel (DE-588)10005065-7 gnd Europäische Kommission. Europäisches Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung | Brüssel (DE-588)5098525-5 gnd Europäische Union | Brüssel Straßburg (DE-588)4078541-5 gnd Ungarn (DE-588)1196846693 gnd Várhelyi Olivér | 1972– | Diplomat (DE-588)7619701-3 gnd Vertrag über die Arbeitsweise der Europäischen Union (DE-588)4835148-9 gnd Vertrag über die Europäische Union Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-commissioner-espionage-law/ raw object