Europe’s rule-of-law headache is turning into a serious migraine but no one seems to have a remedy.
Years of clashes that pit EU institutions and many member countries against Poland and Hungary have grown even more severe in recent months. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government has faced widespread condemnation over anti-LGBTQ+ legislation while Polish authorities have effectively declared they don’t accept the supremacy of EU law.
But various efforts by Brussels from legal action to threats to cut off funding have failed to prompt a change of course in Warsaw or Budapest. Instead, the gulf between the two rebel member countries and the EU’s political core over the bloc’s values seems to be growing even wider. All of which prompts a fundamental question: How does this end?
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