Orban frustrates EU’s €25 billion effort to force him into line
There is little to suggest that anything has managed to throw Orban’s decade-old campaign against liberal democracy into reverse
When the European Union suspended more than €25 billion of funding for Hungary last year, it was seen as a breakthrough moment for the bloc. The thinking in Brussels and around Europe went that withholding such a sum would finally bring renegade Prime Minister Viktor Orban to heel.
A year on, the EU could unfreeze about a third of the suspended money as soon as next week after Hungary appears to have met an initial ...
