Hungary’s government has ended the country’s state of emergency in a move that new Prime Minister Péter Magyar said represented a return to “normality.”
“As of today, after four years, the wartime state of emergency in Hungary is ending, and with it we are also putting an end to the decree-based emergency rule introduced by the Orbán government six years ago,” Magyar said in a post on X.
The emergency governance framework was first introduced by the government of previous Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in 2020 as part of measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was later extended in 2022 after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with Orbán citing security and humanitarian risks stemming from the conflict.
The state of emergency gave the government the power to rule by decree which the European Parliament said at the time was “totally incompatible with European values.”
