A majority of MEPs called on the EU Council on Wednesday 30 January to take seriously the situation of fundamental rights and the rule of law in Hungary, against which they opened an Article 7 procedure last September (see EUROPE 12094).
In the absence of Hungarian government representatives, this debate, launched by the Greens/EFA group in December (see EUROPE 12164), was an opportunity for these MEPs to point out the deterioration of the judicial, particularly the political situation...