Thursday, 19. January 2012
Topic: EU - on January 19, 2012 at 2:31:00 PM CET
European Union Acts to Halt Hungarian Laws
Reawakening a debate on what the European Union should do when one of its members threatens its democratic principles, the bloc’s executive arm opened legal proceedings on Tuesday against Hungary, which critics contend is sliding toward authoritarianism.
It had been more than 10 years since the union faced a similar dilemma, when an Austrian coalition government included a far-right party. Austria was forced into semi-isolation when the bloc’s other countries severed political ties.
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