“It is the Hungarian Presidency’s goal to achieve a new European deal of competitiveness. We aim to design this deal by 8 November when there is a European Council in Budapest”, declared the Hungarian Minister for European Affairs, János Bóka, on Tuesday 3 September, after an informal meeting of ministers on ‘General Affairs’. This could take the form of a declaration at the end of the summit of European leaders, like the Versailles Declaration in March 2022 under the French...