On Friday 12 January, Finnish EPP MEP Petri Sarvamaa announced that he had collected 120 signatures on a petition calling on the EU Council to activate the voting procedure provided for in Article 7 of the Treaty against Hungary in order to establish the existence of a clear risk of violation of European values (see EUROPE B13325A20).
This is the stage preceding a decision on the withdrawal of voting rights from a member country concerned by this procedure. The European Parliament will...