Center for Fundamental Rights: Brussels weaponizes rule of law while ignoring real abuses

The Center for Fundamental Rights has criticized the European Commission’s latest rule of law report, calling it a clear example of legal hypocrisy. In a summary of its analysis titled The EU’s Legal Hypocrisy in Weaponizing the Rule of Law, the Hungarian-Polish Freedom Institute accused Brussels of ignoring serious violations in Poland and Ukraine while targeting Hungary for political reasons.

According to the statement issued Monday, the Commission “turns a blind eye” to how the Tusk government in Poland uses methods reminiscent of “the darkest communist times” to restore the rule of law. The center also claimed the EU overlooks abuses in Ukraine, where authorities reportedly commit crimes against their population and disregard both international human rights obligations and their own constitution.

The analysis cited reports of violent forced conscription affecting the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, including an alleged incident where a Hungarian citizen died from injuries inflicted by authorities—an event the centre says has been downplayed as falling “within the framework of the rule of law.”

Despite these concerns, the EU is rapidly advancing Ukraine’s accession, the center noted. It further stated that Ukraine’s intelligence services have interfered in Hungarian domestic politics by supporting the TISZA Party’s campaign efforts to promote EU membership for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the statement said, Hungary faces relentless pressure from Brussels for rejecting migration, gender ideology, war, and what the centre described as “economic and social suicide” linked to Ukraine’s EU accession.

The Center for Fundamental Rights concluded that the rule of law, as interpreted by the Commission, has been stripped of its original constitutional and human rights essence, becoming a political weapon used against governments that diverge from a “left-liberal or globalist agenda.”