Hungary has suffered a further setback at the Court of Justice of the European Union after Advocate General Michal Bobek considered that the European Parliament’s opening of a procedure on European values in September 2018 under Article 7 of the Treaty was “well founded”, in conclusions delivered on Thursday 3 December (Case C-650/18).
The Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán had challenged the ‘Sargentini’ report which had launched the procedure before the Court, all the while...