By Dániel G. Szabó and Beáta Bakó A legislative amendment tabled by Fidesz MPs on 21 March would allow for withdrawing the mandate of Hungarian members of the European Parliament (MEPs) if they intentionally provide false information in their asset declaration. As Fidesz has a two-thirds majority in parliament, its bills almost always become law. … Read more
This week, Brown, Goldstein & Levy proudly stood up for the critical role of the legal profession in protecting the Constitution and rule of law by joining over 3,000 individuals and organizations in the legal community in signing an open letter urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to oppose the Trump Administration’s egregious attacks on the … Read more
Romania was recently rocked by the annulment of presidential elections in December 2024, a crisis apparently stifled by the March 2025 invalidation of Călin Georgescu’s candidacy in do-over elections. Mr. Georgescu, an ultranationalist firebrand, styles himself in a MAGA-like fashion as tribune of “the People” and warrior against a “Soros-driven” elite conspiracy. The Hungarian-American billionaire … Read more
Herbert Kitschelt and Silja Häusermann show that structural economic change – rather than parties abandoning traditional left-wing principles – is the root cause of the decline of social democracy. From the 1970s to the present, the political left in western democracies has irreversibly changed. In the 1970s, almost all countries had a single dominant party … Read more
On Tuesday this week, the European Court of Justice rendered two judgments (here and here) on whether Article 22 TFEU gives mobile EU citizens the right to join a national party in order to exercise effectively their right to stand in municipal and European elections. The Court’s judgments are groundbreaking. However, this is not because … Read more