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Hungarian parliamentary legislative reforms

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The Hungarian Parliament has engaged in a series of extraordinary sessions to address various legislative reforms. Initial sessions focused on education and health, including draft bills to restore organizational autonomy and collective rights for school staff, revisions to vocational training laws, and changes to health-data management rules. Other early agenda items included police task allocation and the establishment of a National Asset Recovery and Protection Office. Subsequent sessions expanded the legislative scope to include judicial and constitutional reforms. Proposed amendments seek to reinstate a requirement that constitutional judges must have completed twenty years of legal practice. Further discussions have addressed the transfer of chancellor duties within vocational training centers, the online publicity of court proceedings, and the creation of an ad hoc committee to nominate members of the Media Council. Additionally, the parliament has considered economic measures such as a VAT reduction for firewood. In a recent two-day extraordinary session, sessions, Prime Minister Péter Magyar addressed the National Assembly to advance these legislative priorities. priorities and address energy and water crises. He highlighted the challenges faced by that the Paks nuclear power plant, which saw plant’s output drop had dropped from 2,000 MW to 230 MW during a period of extreme heat and due to low Danube water levels. levels, but confirmed that all four reactors and eight turbines are now operating normally. Magyar criticized the previous administration under Viktor Orbán, contrasting the current government’s response to the drought and energy shortage with what he described as the opposition’s tendency to criticize rather than act. Magyar noted that emergency measures efforts to raise the river Danube water level were completed faster and more cost-effectively quickly and at a lower cost than originally planned. Looking forward, Magyar projected. He also announced a “new era of water and energy management,” which includes the upcoming submission of a new climate law and updated water management regulations this autumn. He also pledged to review critical infrastructure and reserve systems.

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