/mlpol/ - Hungary might loose voting rights in the EU "parliament"

>EU parliament votes to rebuke Hungary

>Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban suffered a stinging rebuke from his European political allies on Wednesday when the EU’s parliament voted for the first time to censure his country over possible breaches of bloc rules and values.
>Almost 450 MEPs lined up against Budapest including many members of the conservative European People’s party (EPP) to which Mr Orban’s Fidesz party is affiliated, deepening the rift in the EU over the alleged slide towards autocracy in some member states.
>Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, also weighed in on Wednesday, warning against growing nationalism — and a deterioration in the rule of law that some see as an existential threat to the EU.

>Heather Grabbe, director of the Open Society European Policy Institute, said MEPs across the political spectrum had taken a “historic stand in defending the EU’s democratic values and the rights of its citizens”.
>George Soros, the Open Society institute’s founder, has been a target of Mr Orban’s government as it has tightened control since his return to power in 2010.

>MEPs voted by 448 to 197 to back a report to the parliament, written by a Dutch Green MEP, that accused Hungary of threatening the rule of law by hampering press and academic freedoms, cracking down on NGO funding and denying rights to minorities and migrants.
>The ballot cleared the two-thirds majority needed to trigger further action against Hungary, meaning that it was supported by a significant number of EPP MEPs — the largest group in the parliament.

>An official tally showed 115 EPP members voted against Mr Orban, with 57 backing him and 28 abstaining. The backers and abstainers included many central European MEPs, plus a sprinkling from big western European countries including Germany, France, Spain and Italy.
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