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Barroso: We will make sure Hungary complies with EU laws
Jan 12, 2012, 11:20 GMT
Copenhagen - The European Union will make sure that Hungary complies with all the bloc's laws, the head of the bloc's executive promised on Thursday.
Hungary's conservative government is under fire for a series of new laws and constitutional amendments which critics say unduly concentrate powers on a range of matters - from finances to election law - with the administration.
'Some of that legislation may indeed by in violation of European laws and European principles,' European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in Copenhagen.
'So we will use all our power to make sure that Hungary complies with the principles and values and the rules of the European Union, and I am confident that we will achieve that,' he added.
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who hosted Barroso, and whose country hold the EU's rotating presidency, chose to remain silent on the Hungarian issue.
On Wednesday, the commission postponed to next week its final response on whether Hungary's laws - notably one that seems to affect the independence of the central bank - breach EU norms.
A senior EU official told
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