On Tuesday 27 May, the European Affairs Ministers of the EU Member States held a new hearing on Hungary’s Rule of law in a particularly tense context, as Viktor Orbán’s government has used the law to prevent a ‘Pride March’ scheduled for 28 June from taking place, and has again recently planned to pass new so-called transparency in public life laws, which are suspected of increasing the oppression of civil society and LGBTIQ+ people.
17 Member States, led by the Netherlands and...