Hungary can no more than Poland be considered at present to be a true democracy, a liberal democracy. Quite clearly, were they candidates to join the European Union today, these two countries would be knocked back. They no longer meet the Copenhagen criteria which require that the rule of law and democracy be guaranteed by stable institutions. As Professor Grzegorz Ekiert, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, notes: “In both countries, the...