On 18 July, the ‘General Affairs’ Council will again address the issue of the Rule of law, in this case in Poland, with a new review of the situation on the ministers' agenda. For Hungary, no review is planned for 18 July, but a hearing could be scheduled for September, even if the final format were still to be defined by the Finnish Presidency of the EU Council.
At the end of 2017, the European Commission initiated the so-called Article 7 procedure against Poland, which subsequently led...