On Thursday 6 September, the conference of presidents of the European Parliament's political groups decided to invite Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the debate in Strasbourg on Tuesday 11 September on the draft Sargentini report about the opening of a Treaty Article 7 procedure on the respect of rule of law in Hungary.
This invitation comes after Orbán spoke of his desire to argue his government's case at the European Parliament's plenary session (see EUROPE 12087) – a...