Council of Europe Cites Hungary’s Progress on Judiciary, Media

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Hungary has made “significant progress” on reforms to the country’s judicial and media laws, the Council of Europe said.

“We have been able to change fundamentally the laws regarding two indispensable institutions in a system of checks and balances and rule of law, namely the judiciary and the media,” Thorbjoern Jagland, secretary general of the intergovernmental group, told a press briefing in Brussels today.