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Another Domino Falls in the EU’s War on National Sovereignty

Paul McCarthy | Max Primorac

Another country has succumbed to the European Union’s war on national sovereignty in what has become systematic lawfare campaigns to impose Brussel’s progressive ideology on a European continent marked by populist frustration with the EU’s failed policies. Those policies have led to economic stagnation, high unemployment, soaring migrant crime, and the gradual erosion of citizens’ basic political and religious rights.

Last week, Hungary’s president was effectively forced from office after recently-elected Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s parliamentary supermajority amended Hungary’s constitution to terminate President Tamás Sulyok’s mandate years before its scheduled expiration.

Critics have argued that the change was a targeted political measure directed at an officeholder closely associated with the previous conservative government of Viktor Orban. Sulyok warned that removing elected officials through tailor-made amendments sets a dangerous precedent and weakens respect for fixed terms of office, separation of powers, and constitutional continuity. Supporters called the move democratic renewal; opponents viewed it as a crackdown on conservative institutional influence.

Magyar’s hollowing out of Hungary’s democratic institutions is a replay of Poland, where leftist Prime Minister Donald Tusk has sought to jail prominent members of his conservative opposition through criminal investigations, parliamentary commissions, prosecutions of former ministers, and legal proceedings against senior Law and Justice (PiS) figures.

Tusk’s government argues these actions are necessary........

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