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France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
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There is a big question of how we have got to the point where Putin and Trump have committed themselves to another summit in Budapest.

By Alexander Mercouris.

The first thing to say is that there is none of the excitement - or concern - we saw ahead of the summit in Alaska. The European media, which was in a frenzy before the Alaska summit, is playing this summit down.

The second is that the Russians seem to be much more skeptical. Not only have Putin and Lavrov been challenged by the Russian media in recent press conferences and interviews, but it seems to me that Ushakov in his briefing seemed more doubtful than before. He spoke of the call between Putin and Trump as merely being ‘quite useful’, and made no comment about warmth or ‘sincerity’ between the leaders.

It is clear that there is a tension we have not seen before.

This has caused me to read through all the various comments made since Alaska by Putin and Lavrov, going back all the way to the press conference that Putin and Trump held after...

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Is Hungary a signatory of the ICC?
Yes, and no. And no, Hungary had no legal duty to arrest Netanyahu, and has no duty to arrest Putin. (And why it doesn't even matter if Hungary had/has.)

So the situation is, that the Hungarian government signed the ICC documents, but it was never approved by the Parliament.

And as a parliamentary democracy, the government can not simply declare Hungary to be a member. The parliament needs to approve it. Which it did not do.

From the article below:
“We signed an international treaty, but we never took all the steps that would otherwise have made it enforceable in Hungary,” Orbán said, referring to the fact that Hungary’s parliament never promulgated the court’s statute into Hungarian law.

In other words, yes, the Hungarian government signed it, and decreed Hungary a member. That's why everyone else think Hungary is a member.
But they had no right to do it by decree, the proper procedure was never completed, and that means that (by Hungarian ...