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More from Me on Blockchain Fraud
My most recent article on blockchain fraud, The Inadequacy of Equitable Remedies for Blockchain Fraud, 95 Miss. L.J. 1144 (2026), was recently released by the Mississippi Law Journal. Written for the 2025 Remedies Forum hosted in Budapest, Hungary, this article follows on an earlier work I featured here on the BLPB in June, co-authored with...
- Hungary Asset Recovery Office: Tax, State Aid And Public Funds Compliance Risks
- Shrinking Advertising Space: New Content, Placement And Market Restrictions In Hungary
- Hungary Strengthens Its Energy Transition Through The EU’s Energy Storage Initiative
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Data Minimization Under Scrutiny: Hungarian DPA Decision Signals Risk for U.S. Employers
A recent decision by Hungary’s Data Protection Authority (NAIH) offers a deceptively modest outcome, a €5,000 fine, but sends a much stronger signal on the evolving expectations around data minimization under the GDPR and ultimately, the US State Privacy laws. The decision reflects a strict, controller-centric approach, making clear that the key question in a...
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Hungary’s 2026 Election: Assessing Péter Magyar’s Victory
In our latest episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone, head of our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice, speaks with David Kostelancik, a longtime U.S. State Department diplomat and former chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, about the political shakeup following Hungary’s 2026 national elections. On April 12, opposition candidate...
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European Court Invalidates Hungarian Law Shielding Minors from Transgender and Homosexual Depictions
In European Commission v. Hungary, (CJEU, April 21, 2026), the Court of Justice of the European Union held that Hungary’s Law on the Protection of Children and other provisions of Hungarian law adopted in 2021 violate the Treaty on European Union and other EU rules. Hungary’s Law on the Protection of Children provides in part: ‘In...
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Clash between gender data vs Hungarian personal data register: Can an existing Hungarian registry system prevent the enforcement of trans rights based on the GDPR?
Attila Szabó, PhD Head of Legal Aid Service, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union *The author assisted the lawyer representing the person concerned as an advisor in the Hungarian case analyzed in the text. The author also used artificial intelligence to prepare the English version of the text. Photo credit: Jorge Franganillo, via Wikimedia...
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Limiting Commission Discretion in EU Funding Conditionality
When the Commission sets the criteria for releasing EU funds, can it later decide not to follow them? Advocate General Ćapeta’s Opinion in Parliament v Commission observes that the Commission prematurely released funds despite Hungary not fulfilling many pre-established conditions. The Commission itself had set these criteria. This is part of a broader pattern of...
- Global Minimum Tax: Practical Experience From Hungary
