Parliament on Tuesday elected four Constitutional Court judges to fill vacant positions, and a new court head. They are supreme court judge Ildikó Marosi Horcher, legal historian Attila Horváth, law[…]
The Constitutional Court has thrown out earlier court decisions that banned publication of photos and video footage including portraits of police in action. The courts have so far considered police[…]
The Constitutional Court has ruled that amendments to the law governing the National Bank of Hungary that give it the legal power to decline public information requests concerning companies that[…]
Hungary’s top court has axed some parts of a law on compensation for investors of failed brokerage Quaestor. The Constitutional Court said the law on a top-up fund set up[…]
Hungary slipped in Freedom House’s democracy ratings for last year, according to the US-based human rights watchdog’s 2015 report. The country was ranked among “semi-consolidated democracies”, slipping from being a[…]
Although the National Bank doesn`t seem to want to know about the full extent of the problem, there are still many dissatisfied foreign-currency borrowers who are not paying the 25%[…]
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Presenting in one concise package the week’s most important and fascinating national stories, whether they be economic, political, cultural, sporting or among the hundreds of other happenings that go on[…]
Another illusion has been shattered for the common citizen. The foreign-currency loans will be converted to HUF loans at the actual exchange rate. The government “fairly” divides the burden of[…]
The Hungarian Banking Association has asked President of the Republic János Áder not to sign legislation on bank refunds to clients, which is expected to cost lenders around HUF 1[…]
