By Tamas Csonka in Budapest The Venice Commission said the Hungarian legislation on defence of national sovereignty violated international standards and needed to be amended to provide for ‘certain exceptions’ and ‘more precise definitions’. The advisory body to the Council of Europe scrutinised the provisions of the law prohibiting foreign funding in election campaigns and establishing the Sovereignty Protection Office in late 2023. It acknowledged that the prohibition of foreign funding in election campaigns was in line with international best practices ‘in principle’, but said provisions in…