Respect for‘sovereignty’ effectively coincides with alle­giance to Orbán’s propaganda, with the non-aligned end­ing up blacklisted, at risk of having their bank accounts frozen and having to close down. The reaction of the free press and international bodies blocked the law’s approval, which was originally scheduled for the summer, but the overall framework of the draft law has remained in place because the controversial 2023‘sovereignty law’, on which the‘Russia law’ is based, remains. As does the insidious use of this Orbán office. Stefano Bottoni, author of a biography critical of Orbán, has noted that the regime’s new development “lies precisely in the fact of creating a pseudo-legal framework by means of the Sovereignty Protection office which enables the government to obstruct a wide range of organisations, including Tisza using administrative methods – without the judiciary being involved.” 14 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.