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Video of the U.S. Helsinki Commission hearing on Hungary, March 19, 2013
Here’s the video of yesterday’s hearing of the Helsinki Commission on Hungary.
Note that the actual hearing begins at 41:35.
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Unfortunately the picture doesn’t lead to a link. Could you please post the link too?
Thanks
There is nothing wrong with the video. Just click on it but as I mentioned the actual hearing starts only around 40:00. And make sure that the volume is all the way up.
Sandor, it worked for me. Just click and it plays. If I post the youtube link, by default on this blog it would show the same screen. Go on youtube and enter: The Trajectory of Democracy: Why Hungary Matters . THis is the title of the video.
Try to copy-paste this into your browser:
Hungarian government’s debt
2010. May 19,933 billion (at Fidesz takeover)
2011. Feb 21,630 billion + 2,946 (nationalized private retirement)= 24,576
Increase of national debt in the past 33 months= 23.3%
I simply don’t understand what the problem is. Works like a charm.
I think (although I am not a legal scholar) the most significant part of Prof Scheppele’s extended testimony is this:
“This “magic two-thirds” has enabled Fidesz to make all of its constitutional changes in a formally legal manner. Only one barrier remained: In 1995, under a prior two-thirds government, the old constitution was amended to require a four-fifths vote of the Parliament before any new constitutional drafting process could begin. One month into its term, Fidesz used its two-thirds vote to amend the constitution to remove the four-fifths requirement.”
This makes the entire Fidesz legal construction of the “Basic Law” unlawful, therefore null and void.
This puzzled me too – how can an amemdment that specifies a 4/5 majority be undone by a 2/3 majority?
Either this was a daft bit of legislation, as it still allows the constitution to be replaced on a 2/3 majority, or else, as tappanch suggests, Fidesz have broken the law.
If the latter is true, then is there anything the EU can do to overturn the new Fidesz constitution?
I think the ‘problem’ is that the recording starts 40 minutes (why?!) before anything happens, so initially it appears that the video isn’t running, as the picture doesn’t alter.
On the one hand, Fidesz claimed that the 4/5 requirement had expired in 1998, on the other hand, they were not completely sure, so they explicitly removed it with a 2/3 law after 2010.
Yes, but I warned everybody that the video starts somewhere around 40:00. It is right underneath the video.
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