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Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán – It's clear that there was a trade

Orbán deliberately tries to portray the Article 7 action as an attack on the Hungarian nation and people when it is actually a judicial process against his corrupt and anti-democratic government.

Hungary

Orban sends thank-you letters to MEPs who voted against Article 7

Article 7, often dubbed the "nuclear option", could see the EU impose sanctions on Hungary and restrict its voting rights.

Europe News

EU takes Poland to highest court

Move comes amid concerns about rule of law and courts

Hungary

Euroviews. 'What if?' A View from a Fidesz MEP

As Milan Kundera once wrote, one of the functions of Central Europe is to serve as an early warning system for Europe as a whole. This is what Fidesz has got right and that’s why it’s so widely detested. Nobody likes a successful prophet, after all.

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Europe News

Brief from Brussels: How to handle Hungary and Poland?

Europe News

Hungary and Poland: should Brussels have acted sooner?

"It may simply be in Hungary we have left things so late, it's really really difficult to reverse that kind of anti democratic trend."

Hungary

Orban says Hungary to appeal Article 7 in defiant message to Brussels

Hungary's Prime Minister blasted teh Sargentini report as full of "absurdities."

Hungary

Putin due to host Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orban

Vladimir Putin who considers the European Union as a strategic rival, seeks partners who could weaken the common policies of the EU.

Europe News

Brief from Brussels: The problem with Article 7

Europe News

Article 7 v Hungary - mission impossible?

Disciplinary mechanism is a long and complicated process

World

Hungary decides whether to take legal steps to challenge European Parliament vote

Hungary's government decides today whether to take legal steps to challenge a European Parliament ruling against the country.

My Europe Series

State of the Union: Preparing for post-Juncker Europe

Hungary

Exclusive poll: Most Hungarians think Article 7 vote 'fair'

Most Hungarians think the European Parliament’s decision to trigger Article 7 disciplinary procedures against Hungary was fair, according to an exclusive Euronews poll.

USA

Euroviews. The US isn't close to becoming another Poland or Hungary - yet | View

Professor Krugman is right to be concerned given President Trump's ongoing attacks on democratic norms in the US and the Republican party's complicity in those attacks, but I don't agree that we are close to becoming another Poland or Hungary.

World

Hungary will seek legal ways to challenge Article 7 vote

Hungary says it will seek legal ways to challenge a European Parliament vote to start Article 7 proceedings against the country.

Hungary

Hungary says it'll seek legal ways to challenge the European Vote

The votes highlight the substantial minority of European opinion who see Viktor Orban as a crusader for the rights of nation states after MEPs voted to start an EU punitive procedure against Hungary for allegedly persistently flouting democratic rules

Hungary

EU Parliament vote to punish Hungary over alleged flouting of democratic rules

It's the first time the European legislature triggered the so-called Article 7 procedure against an EU member state

Hungary

Hungarian infrastructure a symptom of decades of underinvestment

Today EU infrastructure spending is at an historic low. While some countries have spent EU funding wisely, in other member states people wonder if any money has been spent at all...

Europe News

Socialist MEP tells Orban his is the 'most corrupt government in EU'

Heated debate in European parliament on Hungary

Hungary

MEPs debate whether to punish Hungary

Join us for live coverage from the European Parliament where MEPs are discussing whether to punish the Hungarian for undercutting democracy.