After their meeting, Trócsányi told MTI over the phone that the new law gives detainees the chance to file a complaint against the conditions of their incarceration domestically, and they need not turn to Strasbourg. This will allow the ECHR to terminate 600 cases, which has “important budgetary implications, too.”

Trócsányi said he had reassured Jagland that as a result of the adoption of a new penal procedures code and a civic procedures law the problem of excessively prolonged cases will also find remedy.

The talks addressed concerns raised over Hungary’s constitutional court and Trócsányi emphasised that the body has “protected Hungary’s rule of law without fail since 2011.” The newly added option of the constitutional legal complaint has met expectations, he added.

Addressing the migration crisis, Trócsányi said that Hungary is interested in any solution that can find a consensus among European politicians and which is not just at “a technocratic regulatory level.”

The key to the solution is in the political realm and heads of state and government must play the primary role in finding it.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.

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