{"id":707744,"date":"2026-01-20T03:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/707744\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:15:11","slug":"polish-minister-warns-of-dangerous-precedent-as-hungarys-orban-grants-asylum-to-fugitive-politician-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/707744\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish minister warns of \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019 as Hungary\u2019s Orb\u00e1n grants asylum to fugitive politician \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u017burek, from the liberal, pro-EU government of Donald Tusk, retorted this use of political asylum now poses a massive challenge to the EU\u2019s ability to enforce rule of law. If Hungary\u2019s approach goes unanswered, he warned, others will bypass the courts across the 27-country bloc to protect their political allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a dangerous precedent for the entire European Union,\u201d \u017burek said. \u201cIf the EU accepts this, everyone will start citing it \u2026 justice will become a political tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn asylum decision is a political decision \u2014 not a ruling by an independent court,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is what is most worrying, because it circumvents the rules of the European arrest warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ziobro fled to Hungary after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/former-polish-justice-minister-zbigniew-ziobro-stripped-of-immunity-to-face-charges-pis-pegasus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing parliamentary immunity<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>A Polish court is expected to decide in February whether to order Ziobro\u2019s arrest. Under normal EU practice, such a ruling would trigger swift extradition. But in Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary, there is a high risk it will hit a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>A loophole already in use<\/p>\n<p>This is not Poland\u2019s first run-in with this loophole. Ziobro\u2019s case follows that of his former deputy, Marcin Romanowski, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/viktor-orban-infuriate-warsaw-poland-marcin-romanowski-asylum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">granted asylum by Hungary in 2024<\/a> and remains there despite a valid arrest warrant. EU institutions have so far failed to take any step to force Budapest to hand him over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u017burek, from the liberal, pro-EU government of Donald Tusk, retorted this use of political asylum now poses a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[41010,5108,7907,6178,30,31,21469,32,5898,33,2000,299,5187,1699,36,1780,50861,2190,51030,44,11854,770,2443,3205,49,1781,333,209128],"class_list":{"0":"post-707744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-asylum","10":"tag-austria","11":"tag-conflict","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-democracy","14":"tag-digital-services-act","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-donald-tusk","17":"tag-elections","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-european-union","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-geert-wilders","24":"tag-herbert-kickl","25":"tag-hungary","26":"tag-karol-nawrocki","27":"tag-marine-le-pen","28":"tag-peter-magyar","29":"tag-poland","30":"tag-regulation","31":"tag-spyware","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-viktor-orban","34":"tag-vladimir-putin","35":"tag-zbigniew-ziobro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115925255839846280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}