By EUobserver

The European Court of Human Rights awarded a compensation of €100,000 to former Supreme Court president Andras Baka for the premature termination of his mandate in 2012. According to the ruling, Baka lost his job for criticising PM Orban's government, not as a consequence of judicial overhaul. “I don’t believe this verdict has a bearing on Hungarian democracy as a whole,” Janos Lazar, a government minister said Thursday.