A senior Hungarian choose has spoken to the Observer newspaper about how the federal government of Viktor Orbán is “consistently overreaching” its authority to sway courts. Csaba Vasvári, a senior choose on the Budapest metropolitan court docket for 18 years, mentioned we “have been witnessing exterior and inner affect makes an attempt” for a number of years — a uncommon home affirmation of EU fears over Hungary’s assault on the independence of the judiciary.