Constitutional Amendments Tabled to Rein in EU Joint Borrowings

The proposals to amend the Fundamental Law have been submitted to parliament. The proposals were announced last Thursday by Gergely Gulyás, the minister responsible for the Prime Minister’s office, at the government press briefing.

As Hungary Today reported last week, Gergely Gulyás announced that the new amendment will strengthen the rules on child protection, will require a two-thirds majority for Hungary’s participation in the EU’s common borrowing scheme, and will regulate the military operations of the Hungarian Defense Forces.

According to Magyar Nemzet, the proposal submitted by Zoltán Tessey (Fidesz) to amend the Fundamental Law reads: “Hungary may contribute to the European Union’s borrowing and the related guaranteeing of loans that create payment obligations for Hungary, on the basis of an individual decision of the government,

based on the authorization of the National Assembly, adopted by a two-thirds majority of the members of parliament.”

According to the explanatory memorandum, the purpose of the proposed amendment is to ensure that the Hungarian government can only agree to borrowing on behalf of the European Union and to the associated guarantee if the parliament, by a two-thirds majority of all its members, supports the establishment of the credit union.

Another proposal from Imre Vejkey (KDNP) would supplement the provisions of the Fundamental Law on the president’s right to pardon individuals.

The proposal would provide for a cardinal law defining the scope of intentional crimes against children for which the head of state cannot grant pardons.

The proposal was justified on the grounds that children are the most important persons in Hungary, and therefore the perpetrators of crimes against children must be punished to the full extent of the law.

Lajos Kósa’s (Fidesz) proposal to amend the Fundamental Law calls for a cardinal law on the basic rules

for authorizing military operations, deployment, and other cross-border troop movements of the Hungarian Defense Forces and military operations, deployment, and other cross-border troop movements of foreign armed forces in Hungary.

As the explanatory memorandum states, we are living in an age of danger and our neighbor has been at war for more than two years, which is why the law is necessary.

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