The panel addresses the question whether the increased presence of various threats to national security and the legal responses has challenged the commonly accepted notions of the rule of law, democracy and human right standards in Europe, and most particularly in Hungary. Recently, problems have called for and resulted in the establishment of different crisis situations, constitutional and statutory changes. Panellists depart with a hypothesis that current crisis Europe is facing with has caused a tendency to reinterpret the rule of law, democracy and human rights. Hungarian legislation, emergency related constitutional law, and jurisprudence of Hungarian courts along with the case law of the CJEU and ECtHR are studied with the view to see whether the Hungarian legislation is still in line with European standards. Today‘s biggest challenge seems to be formed around the question whether to sustain or rather reinterpret existing values and practices.