Bellingcat’s Pooja identified four Indian far-right media outlets that are receiving non-transparent foreign donations. Two sites could be linked to a US-based group associated with the RSS, the group that birthed far-right Hindu ideology. bellingcat.com/news/2024/05/2…

When the Article 7.1 procedure was launched at the end of 2017 it was a bang a now ends with more of a whisper. No bills enacted yet in Poland.

EU ministers are fuming as 'outrageous' Hungary has yet again blocked military aid for Ukraine.

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BREAKING:

In two new letters to Congress, Samuel Alito refuses to recuse himself from cases involving Jan. 6 despite concerns about the two controversial flags being flown at his homes.

BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.

'My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not,' he writes.

Background at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is…

We've decided to close the Article 7(1) TEU procedure for Poland.

Our consideration is that there is no longer a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law.

The ongoing restoration of the rule of law in Poland is great for the Polish people and for our Union as a whole.

1/ The narratives around the headlines of Netanyahu claiming the Rafah strike was a “tragic mistake” are strong. Problem is, it’s not what he said. This highlights a problem with translation in this conflict 🧵

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Please drop by in Groningen tomorrow if you are a first time voter and want to learn how to cast an informed vote for the European Parliament elections next week
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ourruleoflaw

Vote buying again??

Was D.A. Bragg Right to Bring the New York Charges Against Trump?
(Answer: Yes) ...
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'The EU cannot grow stronger without strong democracy protected by strong rule of law.'
To defend democratic security in the next EU institutional cycle, the design of the Article 7 process should improve, writes Márta Pardavi in @visegradinsight.
visegradinsight.eu/article-7-aliv…

#Hungary 's PM Viktor #Orbán has two good reasons to troll #EU responses to #Georgia ’s upcoming elections. EU institutions and member states must be prepared for this eventuality.
Read my warning piece, kindly published by EUobserver
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-wor…

Hungary is now in 67th place in the @rsf_en World Press Freedom Index. Here is what this means in practice.

Walk through FitzRandolph Gate ✅

#Princeton24

The latest campaign message from #Hungary PM #Orban : 'We say no to compulsory European conscription' - an idea that has been denied by European politicians repeatedly and has already been noted as false by Twittex

Protest this evening in central Tel Aviv. Enough. Enough.

🇵🇱⚖️🔎 Landmark victory of Polish lawyers (incl. Barbara Grabowska-Moroz) before ECtHR regarding regulation on secret surveillance in Poland. Once again, Strasbourg court finds lack of proper oversight over surveillance, in particular one set up overtly to combat terrorism.

🇵🇱⚖️ I'm slowly losing the strength for this nonsense - the Polish Constitutional Tribunal finds the nonbinding resolution of Sejm on the rule of law crisis in Poland to be, yes, why not, incompatible with the Constitution.

.European Commission tomorrow will withdraw its reasoned opinion to start #Article7 procedure against Poland. It will mean the end of the process which started 6,5 years ago
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Next time someone asks me how it is to work as a journalist in Viktor Orbán's Hungary, I'll point to this video of how Telex's reporters were kicked out from a public event and then harassed by police.

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