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Emil Boc, Romania’s Prime Minister, is in favor of discussions among EU leaders and member states that could lead to the creation of a ‘United States of Europe’, according to his brief intervention at a debate organized by the Center of Euroopean Studies, the think tank of the European People’s Party. This debate was organized early in December in Marseille.
For more on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Boc
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Hungary’s new constitution, media law touches nerves in Brussels
An EU official has warned that talks with Hungary over emergency funding could be frozen and the country faces possible legal action if its controversial new constitution breaches European treaties.
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The new constitution entered into force on 1 January, accompanied by legislation which critics say undermine the independence of the central bank, the judiciary and the media – and entrench the position of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party which is affiliated with the European People’s Party.
Tens of thousands of people protested in Budapest on Monday (2 January) alleging that the new laws are authoritarian.
Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Orbán exchanged a series of letters at the end of December in which Barroso warned the prime minister not to jeopardise the independence of the Bank of Hungary, and re-iterated concerns about media independence.
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