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How Orbán broke the EU — and got away with it
Hungary’s prime minister exploited vulnerabilities in the bloc’s legal and political systems
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
- Lili Bayer
- Politico
As it grew over the decades, the European Union took great care to ensure that any new member met a series of basic criteria: that its democratic systems were robust, that its…
What it didn’t account for was a scenario where one of its members, having joined the Union, would start to roll things back — leaving the bloc of nominally democratic members with a…
And yet, 16 years after the largest expansion in EU history, that’s what Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor…