OR Commission asks the Hungary to withdraw the bill that threatens the Non -Governmental Organizations and independent media considering that it is a “serious violation” of the principles of the European Union if adopted.
The party of nationalist Prime Minister Victor Orban has filed a legislative text on “Public Life Transparency” at the beginning of last week, which is reported by a multitude of non -governmental organizations as a maneuver for the silence of any opposition voice.
“We will not hesitate to take the necessary measures if this bill is adopted,” a European Commission spokesman said in a statement issued yesterday (23.05.2025) in the evening.
«The Commission maintains serious concerns over the bill“, He explained. “If adopted… it will constitute a serious violation of the principles and law of the European Union. Consequently, we call for the law to withdraw from the legislative procedure.
In a letter released on Wednesday, about twenty MEPs call on the European Commission freeze all European resources intended for Hungary And they accuse Victor Orban’s government of repeatedly breach of European law.
OR European Union has already frozen funds of 18 billion euros intended for Hungary In the context of procedures that have been initiated in relation to the rights of the LOATKI+community, asylum seekers, as well as with the conditions of assigning public contracts and the conflict of interests.
Tens of thousands of people marched last Sunday in Hungary against the “transparency of public life” bill, which aims, according to the Orban government, to dismantle “propaganda networks” funded by foreign resources.
What does the draft law foreseen
The bill stipulates that Organizations that “violate or criticize” the values that are registered in the Constitutionmainly “The superiority of marriage, family and biological sexes” will be able to join a black list.
In this case, they should request permission to accept resources from abroad. Their bank accounts will be supervised and sponsors’ financing will be blocked if it proves that the aim of the resources will be “influenced by public life”.
The fines provided are 25 times the funding they have received, and are threatened with a ban on their activities in the event of a repeatcy.
The Hungarian opposition denounces Hungary’s “whip”.
More than 300 non -governmental organizations, including Amnesty International and Transparency International, have signed a letter denouncing a “authoritarian maneuver” of the government with the aim of “remaining in power” a year before the parliamentary elections in which its stay will be threatened.
“It is the silence of every critical voice and the dismantling of what is left of the Hungarian Republic” based on the model of those that are happening in Russia, “the letter said.