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Facebook's claim that service is free to be weighed by Hungary's constitutional court

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 27 Apr 2022 15:31
  • 27 Apr 2022 15:31
Facebook's victory at the Hungarian Supreme Court over whether it can describe its services as "free" has been appealed by the country's competition authority, according to the latter's president.

"We appealed to the Constitutional Court against the Curia's judgment in the Facebook case," Csaba Balázs Rigó told a conference* today

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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