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In Hungary, a member of the EU since 2004, right-wing populist politicians have drawn comparisons between the EU and the former Soviet Union (USSR), seen as a past oppressor in the country. Furthermore, democratic backsliding is a phenomenon present in Hungary. As a result, it has been suggested that Hungary should leave the EU. [6]
The latest controversy caused by the government of Viktor Orbán is when Hungary took the presidency over the EU in 2011 [39] when the "historical timeline" features was presented – among other cultural, historical and scientific symbols or images of Hungary – an 1848 map of Greater Hungary, when Budapest ruled over large swathes of its ...
Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union is a procedure in the treaties of the European Union to suspend certain rights from a member state. While rights can be suspended, there is no mechanism to expel a state from the union.
A group of 63 European Parliament lawmakers has asked the EU to withdraw Hungary's voting rights in the bloc, in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent visits to Moscow and ...
Poland’s government was elected in 2023, with centre-right prime minister Donald Tusk returning to power nine years after his first stint from 2007 to 2014. The interim period included a spell ...
The European Union on Wednesday relented and granted Hungary access to billions of euros in frozen funds just as Prime Minister Viktor Orban appeared ready to defy his EU partners and veto the ...
If a state leaves the European Union, Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union says that "Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question". If the state has been using the euro as its currency then, rather than form a new domestic currency, it might continue to use the euro unilaterally – as Montenegro does – or by way of a ...
Hungary on Monday accused the EU Commission of cherry picking after it said it would not send its commissioners to informal meetings organised by the Hungarian EU presidency, effectively ...