Published: July 26th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The EU Commission is once again taking Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). This time, the reason is what the authority considers to be the inadequate implementation of an EU directive on the rights of suspects or accused persons in criminal proceedings and proceedings for the execution of a European arrest warrant. Specifically, one of the issues is that Hungarian provisions on possible derogations from the right of access to legal assistance could be in breach of EU law.