Merkel and her centre-right allies must compel Hungary’s leader to change course or freeze him outThis appeasement has to cease. If Hungary’s anti-liberal,nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, or persists in his attempts to close down the country’s best and most independent university,and continues to erode liberal democracy in many other ways, then the EU’s powerful grouping of centre-right parties must expel Orbán’s party from its ranks.
Otherwise, or the fixed declarations of fidelity to certain universal values from the European People’s party (EPP) grouping will be worth less than the paper they’re written on. And the political family of German chancellor Angela Merkel,Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and European council president Donald Tusk, or to name but a few,will gaze like a gaggle of temporising appeasers. Related: Hungary has been shamed by Viktor Orbán’s government | George Szirtes Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com