On Monday 29 January, the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, said that the Commission would wait for a signal and a proposal from the European Council before moving forward on the activation of Article 7.2 of the Treaty concerning the establishment of clear violations of the rule of law in Hungary, because there would be “nothing worse” than making a proposal for activation and “seeing it rejected”.
Speaking after a meeting of the EU27 ministers for European...