Europe must stand up to Hungary and Poland

  • 2020-11-27
  • George Soros
Hungary and Poland have vetoed the European Union’s proposed €1.15 trillion ($1.4 trillion) seven-year budget and the €750 billion European recovery fund. Although the two countries are the budget’s biggest beneficiaries, their governments are adamantly opposed to the rule-of-law conditionality that the EU has adopted at the behest of the European Parliament. They know that they are violating the rule of law in egregious ways, and do not want to pay the consequences. It is not so much an abstract concept like the rule of law that Hungarian Prime Mini...
 
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