On 20th December 2024, Mr. Mikael Sjoeberg, President of the European Association of Judges, send a letter to the Hungarian Minister of Justice, Mr. Bence Tuzson.
The EAJ is concerned about an agreement signed on 22 November 2024, between the Minister of Justice, the President of the Curia (Supreme Court), the President of the National Judicial Council and the President of the National Office of the Judiciary, which led to an ongoing (and growing) protest within the judiciary against the signing of an ‘agreement’ between the Ministry of Justice and the three top executives of the judicial administration bodies in Hungary, which, in exchange for increasing the salaries of judges and judicial staff, provided blanket approval for indefinite structural reforms that would undermine the independence of the judiciary.
