Fidesz: EP threatens legal action against EC over Hungary

The European Parliament is threatening court procedures against the European Commission over its decision to unfreeze a portion of EU funds owed to Hungary, Andor Deli, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz told a joint hearing of the EP’s budgets and budgetary control committees in Brussels on Wednesday.

In his address to the hearing on the implementation of the rule-of-law conditionality regulation in connection with Hungary, Deli said the Hungarian government was under attack for ideological reasons.

“Summer is coming,” he said, referring to this year’s European Parliament elections. “By looking at the dissatisfaction” of European citizens, “it seems that this House may become a different place after the elections,” he said.

European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said the EC had decided last December that the judicial reforms adopted by Hungary met the conditions put in place by the Commission.

These reforms, he said, included changes to how the head and deputy head of the Kuria, Hungary’s supreme court, are appointed, as well as changes to the regulation of the administration of courts.