Hungarian Top Court Ruling Emboldens Orban in Fight With EU
- Justices said ruling doesn’t address primacy of EU law
- Government says it has right to set rules for migration
A family at a reception station of the Hungarian National Directorate-General For Aliens Policing, near the Hungarian Slovakian border.
Photographer: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images
Hungary’s top court ruled that the country can enforce its constitution in areas of European Union regulations in limited cases, giving the nationalist government ammunition to defy an EU verdict that struck down its crackdown on asylum seekers.
The ruling Friday leaves room for a potential new challenge to the EU’s legal foundations after judges in Poland decided the bloc has no right to influence Polish judicial matters. Still the court didn’t specifically address the Hungarian government’s petition, which EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders condemned as “unacceptable.”