Barroso Vows to Enforce Hungary's Compliance with EU Law

EU Commission Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso gestures during a joint press conference with Denmark`s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (not pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark on 12 January 2012. EPA/BGNES

The European Union will make sure that Hungary complies with all the bloc's laws, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has declared.

Hungary's conservative government is under fire for a series of new laws and constitutional amendments which critics say unduly concentrate powers on a range of matters - from finances to election law - with the administration.

"Some of that legislation may indeed by in violation of European laws and European principles," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in Copenhagen Thursday, as cited by DPA.

"So we will use all our power to make sure that Hungary complies with the principles and values and the rules of the European Union, and I am confident that we will achieve that," he added.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who hosted Barroso, and whose country hold EU's rotating presidency, chose to remain silent on the Hungarian issue.

On Wednesday, the Commission postponed to next week its final response on whether Hungary's laws - notably one that seems to affect the independence of the central bank - breach EU norms.

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