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." 19/09/2018
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." 19/09/2018
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. 17/09/2018
Europe News Article 7 v Hungary - mission impossible? Disciplinary mechanism is a long and complicated process 17/09/2018
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. 17/09/2018
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. 13/09/2018
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. 13/09/2018
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. 13/09/2018
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 12/09/2018
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 12/09/2018
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... 11/09/2018
Europe News Socialist MEP tells Orban his is the 'most corrupt government in EU' Heated debate in European parliament on Hungary 11/09/2018
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. 11/09/2018
World Hungarian PM Viktor Orban to take part in European Parliament debate ahead of crucial vote Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is going to take part in a European Parliament debate about the "Sargentini" report, ahead of crucial vote on Wednesday. 11/09/2018
Hungary What does the Sargentini report accuse Hungary of? In a draft report, Dutch Green MEP Judith Sargentini accused Orbán's government of posing a "systemic threat" to the EU's fundamental principles and compelled her contemporaries to support her recommendation to launch the little-used Article 7. 10/09/2018
Hungary Euroviews. Fidesz's future, Article 7 - Two questions to Hungarian MEPs | View SZANYI: “I can only hope that finally the EPP leaders will prove to have sufficient political will, and leverage on Orbán to respect European values.” MOLNÁR: “I believe that the EPP should have launched the exclusion of Fidesz from its community a long time ago.” 10/09/2018
Hungary Euroviews. Viviane Reding: Orban, Fidesz are destroying our values | View Viktor Orbán is leading Hungary away from the rule of law, from our fundamental rights, from the EU solidarity, from the EU project. He uses public funds to wage a massive propaganda campaign against the European Union, against free movement and against the rule of law. 07/09/2018