http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/3f160b25882095b1 https://verfassungsblog.de/ziobros-asylum-in-hungary/ Ziobro’s Asylum in Hungary - Accountability, Mutual Trust, and Autocratic Legalism Bárd, Petra eng 2026-01-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In early January 2026, media reports indicated that Hungary had granted political asylum to Zbigniew Ziobro, Poland’s former Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General and a leading figure of the Law and Justice (PiS) government, who is currently facing criminal investigations in Poland. The granting of political asylum by one EU Member State to a citizen of another Member State is not merely unusual; it is structurally exceptional under EU law.