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8 April 2025
Hungary granting political asylum to Marcin Romanowski marks the first time one EU member has offered such protection to a politician from another. Critics see this as a dangerous precedent that weaponises asylum to undermine the rule of law.
Last month, the Hungarian government granted political asylum to Marcin Romanowski, a former justice minister and Law and Justice (PiS) loyalist who had been charged with fraud in Poland. Hungary made history by becoming the first EU member state to extend political asylum to a politician from another member state.
Romanowski faces 11 charges in Poland of misusing public funds when he was deputy justice minister from 2019 to 2023. For the observers of Central and Eastern European politics, this marks yet another move in Viktor Orbán’s arsenal of disruption. The immediate diplomatic spat after the event between the Polish and Hungarian governments notwithstanding, the response across the EU has been muted.
This indifference is a mistake for at least three reasons:
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