Raising pressure on the Hungarian authorities to implement a June 2020 ruling of the EU top court, the European Commission notified Budapest it considers it to be in breach of the treaties. Critics welcomed the move but warned that the EU executive’s tardiness is worrying and only emboldens those who disrespect rule of law. The Hungarian authorities will now have two months to respond. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down last June a 2017 Hungarian law forcing civil society actors to register as ‘organisations in receipt of support from abroad’ if the amount of donations coming from outside the country reaches the threshold of about €22,000