The French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, justified on the evening of Monday 31 January the choice to organise an Article 7 hearing of Hungary in May, therefore after the Hungarian parliamentary elections in April, “so as not to interfere” with the electoral process. Poland’s hearing will take place on 22 February in Brussels.
Calling Article 7 procedures important, even “serious” for the countries concerned, he said it was “important, when there is...