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The Biden administration canceled the 🇭🇺🇺🇸 treaty on double taxation in 2022. The Orbán government "has been investing significant effort into reviving the treaty", but a reliable source told @vsquare.bsky.social that the Trump administration informed the government that it is "not timely".

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Members of the European Parliament were offered special pouches to protect digital devices from espionage and tampering for a visit to Hungary this week 🥷

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3 Green rapporteurs reflect on the role of the @europarl.europa.eu in the struggle to stop rule of law backsliding in Hungary. Interview by @eublogo.bsky.social @greens-efa.eu @ruitavares.bsky.social @greeneujournal.bsky.social

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Hungary's Minister of Justice, Minister of Interior, President of the Constitutional Court & President of Supreme Court declined to meet the EP's delegation visiting Budapest to explore the latest developments in the field of the rule of law, @tinekestrik.bsky.social said in the press conference

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The thinking is on how to get around the Hungarians. Here is what @bloomberg.com reports: The @ec.europa.eu is weighing if it can convert sanctions against Russia into trade measures, which don’t require unanimous consent for approval. The next renewal is due in July.

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FYI PM Orbán👇 The Trump administration plans to use tariff negotiations to pressure U.S. trading partners to limit their dealings with Beijing. “U.S. officials plan to use negotiations to ask countries to disallow 🇨🇳 firms from locating in their territories to avoid U.S. tariffs”, WSJ reports

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‼️Last December, I bid farewell to my Brussels reporting with a joint interview with 3 MEPs who have most compellingly documented the dismantling of the rule of law in Hungary, Rui Tavares, Judith Sargentini & Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield. A short version of it was published in the🇭🇺daily Népszava 2/1

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The EU plans to sketch out its road map to phase out Russian fossil fuels early next month, @bloomberg.com reports. It will explore options to reduce Russian energy imports, including the potential use of quotas or tariffs, as sanctions are a no go, due to opposition from Hungary and Slovakia.

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Transposing EU-wide sanctions against Russia into national law could be a way to undercut Orbán’s ability to veto their rollover, a handful of governments think. Others are hesitant to make any moves that could undermine a common front.

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“America under Donald Trump is an emerging market. Emerging markets are often characterised by uncertain economics, corrupt politics, institutions that are too weak to enforce democratic norms, violence and social polarisation. The US has been heading fast in that direction since 2016”.

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A Conversation with Isaac Chotiner about autocracy, mafia states, and why liberals' conventional ways of thinking about Trump voters serve to flatter liberals:

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A five-MEP delegation led by @tinekestrik.bsky.social will travel to #Hungary next week to assess the latest developments. They’ll meet with government representatives, members of parliament, representatives of the judiciary, local authorities, and civil society, @europarl.europa.eu has announced

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Von der Leyen, who oversees trade policy on behalf of the EU’s 27 member states, said the Commission had previously attempted to negotiate with the US but was told to wait until Trump’s April 2 announcement, which imposed a 20 per cent “reciprocal” tariff on the EU.

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🇪🇺💰Orbán even used Hungary’s EU presidency to enrich his family. Our investigation reveals his government redirected Finnish PM Petteri Orpo and his delegation to Hotel Dorothea—owned by the Orbán family—during last year’s Budapest EU summit so they’d spend money there. @direkt36.bsky.social @hs.fi

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🚘Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator by Elon Musk’s team disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology key to Tesla’s future. The regulator has started eight active investigations into the company. @financialtimes.com

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Posted by China's MFA spokeswoman Mao Ning on X

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In the end, there are just too many contradictions in the Trump worldview to warrant any talk of a grand plan. For example, his movement considers the following two truths to be self-evident. China is a ruthless force that western governments have indulged for too long. 2/1

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Szijjártó in RUSI 😉 @rusi.bsky.social

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‼️EU funding granted to non-governmental organisations suffers from a lack of transparency, reports the European Court of Auditors, which also finds that there are no active checks to ensure that the funded NGOs respect EU values, something which exposes the EU to reputational risk.

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@coe.int Venice Commission will publish its opinion on the recent amendments of the Hungarian electoral law in June, Delphine Freymann, Deputy Secretary of the VC said in the European Parliament 🫵

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“It’s definitely the beginning of the end for Vučić. The only question is how it will play out”. @srdjancvijic.bsky.social

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“Orbán deliberately wants to provoke the international legal order. He is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court precisely because he would then no longer have to deal with possible sanctions from the Court”, said to the 🇧🇪 De Standaard Luc Walleyn, who also acts as a lawyer in the #ICC

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62% of the Belgians indicated that they were afraid that the third world war would break out, says a recent poll published in @dezondag.bsky.social 59% of them are afraid that a possible war will reach Belgium, and 53% fear that nuclear weapons will be used.

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A journalist behind bars asks the prison guards if he might have some books to read and enquires about a particular novel. “No, we don’t have that novel,” comes the reply. “But we do have the author.” (Running joke in Turkey, quoted by FT)

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The tariff onslaught Trump announced on Wednesday would — if fully enacted — in some ways take the global trading system back a century or more, pushing the average effective tariff on US imports to its highest rate since 1909 according to The Budget Lab, a research organisation 🧵

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For PM Orbán, the Czech Babiš could serve as a backup veto-holder if the Slovak Fico is no longer around, @vsquare.bsky.social reports about the moves to make the Article 7 procedure against #Hungary work. This is why Orbán’s men have long been in close contact with Babiš’s inner circle.

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Simon Evenett, a professor at IMD Business School, said the EU’s reliance on US military power to deter Russia and its lack of alternative markets limited the bloc’s ability to respond. “European trade retaliation is a placebo, offering the illusion of resolve”, he said.

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‼️Tomorrow, the Court of Justice of the EU will hear the Advocate General's Opinion on the ban on the use of radio frequencies by the independent Hungarian Klubrádió. The European Commission took the Orbán government to the Court two years ago, claiming that the ban infringed EU law #pressfreedom

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There are currently 19 member states ready to declare that in Hungary there is a serious risk of breaching the EU values, writes @rferl.org.web.brid.gy citing @tinekestrik.bsky.social In order for the EU Council to move to the next stage of the Article 7 procedure... 2/1

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Orbán talks sovereignty but bows to Russia and China, denying fundamental freedoms The EPP Group calls for the Hungarian people to freely elect their next government—without intimidation, repression, or attacks on their fundamental rights. epp.group/qftpi5fj #Hungary

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50 US senators introduced a sanctions package to hit Russia and countries that buy its oil if Putin refuses to engage in ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine. The punishments would include a 500% tariff on imports from countries that buy Russian oil, natural gas or uranium, @bloomberg.com reports

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When asked by Max Giera of @politico.eu why the Patriots Group is blocking the implementation of the EU ethics body meant to standardize transparency requirements across institutions, its VP Kinga Gál of Fidesz appeared to have no clue what he was talking about 🙈🙉🙊 #LePen #embezzlement

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The draft bill on the 15th amendment of the Fundamental Law of Hungary contains several proposals, which raise concerns about their compatibility with Council of Europe and international human rights standards, writes Michael O'Flaherty of @coe.int to the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament #Pride

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Germany’s incoming government says it will press the European Union to finally add some bite to its bark over misbehaving countries. It's a thinly veiled reference to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. 🔗 ow.ly/s77450VrjGE

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