This will be the eighth hearing about Hungary since the European Parliament 2018. initiated proceedings under Article 7. against the country. Article 7 The EU Contract allows the suspension of voting rights to the Council if the Member State violates the basic principles of the Union.
European ministers will discuss the status of Hungary at a meeting of the General Affairs Council 27. Maja, the Council said.
The hearing is held at the time the EU is looking for ways to bypass Budapest if Hungary invests the veto on the accession of Ukraine to the European Union. The EU High Representative Kay Kallas said 10. Maya that Brussels has alternative plans in case Hungary tries to block the candidacy of Ukraine.
“We have a plan B and Plan C. But our focus is on the plan a, whose essence is to support everyone,” Kallas told reporters.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blocked or postponed EU assistance packages for Ukraine, while he opposes sanctions against Russia. Hungarian continuous Obstructing Support Ukraine has caused the threats to deprive the right to vote to that country.
The European Parliament also continuously expresses concerns about Article 7. Due to the “erosion of the rule of law” in Hungary. Under Orban’s Government, Hungary faces increasing criticism of international organizations due to the restriction of media freedom and undermining democracy.
Mass protests erupted in Budapest 18. in response to the controversial law that would give government wide powers for research, punishing, and even prohibition of media houses and non-governmental organizations receiving any funds from abroad. The law proposed by a member of the Orban’s ruling party FIDESZ is similar to the restrictive Russian law on “foreign agents”.
(Vijesti.ba)
