Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is exposing a dangerous weak link in EU law that allows populist governments to shield their allies from jail, Poland’s Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek warned in an interview with POLITICO. Żurek’s concerns focus on the Hungarian government’s decision last month to grant asylum to Zbigniew Ziobro, a justice minister in Warsaw’s former nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) administration. Budapest’s foreign ministry argued that criminal investigations against Ziobro in Poland — into alleged misuse of public funds and deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents — amount to political persecution.
Polish minister warns of ‘dangerous precedent’ as Hungary’s Orbán grants asylum to fugitive politician (Bartosz Brzeziński – Politico)
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