EU Needs to Hold Hungary to Account

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Protesters attend a rally against the Hungarian government's clampdown on civil society in Budapest, Hungary, May 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters/Laszlo Balogh On Monday, EU ministers will discuss, for the fourth time, the systematic breakdown of the rule of law in Hungary. This scrutiny, under the process laid out in article 7(1) of the founding treaty of the EU, has been slow and lackluster. Meanwhile, fundamental rights continue to deteriorate in Hungary as its autocratic government entrenches power and jeopardizes the EU bloc’s unity. This hearing is the first since…

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