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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11132
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

Further controversy over Viktor Orban's comments

Brussels, 30/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 30 July, the European Commission stated that there is “nothing” to indicate that Hungary “is not respecting its obligations under the Treaty”, said its spokesperson, Jonathan Todd, with reference to a speech by the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, made two days earlier in Romania and interpreted by a number of observers as an attack on the fundamental values of the EU. “On the basis of what we have seen of it, we have no comment”,...