OREANDA-NEWS. The European Commission will examine the emergency regime that the governments of the EU states have received to fight the pandemic with a view to their compliance with the EU legal norms. This was announced on Thursday by Vera Yurova, deputy head of the European Commission on Transparency and European Values, during an online session of the European Parliament.

The main criticism during the hearings was addressed to the Hungarian government and personally to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who, according to MPs from the leading EP faction, the European People’s Party and several other factions, "actually seized power under the pretext of a pandemic". “The European Commission is closely monitoring the compliance with European standards of all emergency power regimes received by the governments of the EU states to combat the pandemic”, Yurova said. “We will present the results of this work in a report to be published at the end of the year”.

On March 30, the Hungarian Parliament granted the government wide emergency powers, unlimited in time to combat the pandemic.