EU launches legal action against Hungary

The European Union has begun taking legal action against Hungary over a law that would effectively shut down Central European University, founded by billionaire George Soros in 1991, writes Emily Tamkin for Foreign Policy.

Last Wednesday, a formal letter of notice was sent to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government asking for an explanation as to why it violated EU law by passing a piece of legislation that, for all intents and purposes, is custom-drafted to shut down a university. Hungary has one month to respond to the European Commission’s ‘legal concerns’.

The law to shut down Central European University is hardly the most egregious thing Orbán or his Fidesz party have done to erode democracy in what is still, for now, an EU state and a NATO member. But the law gives Brussels a specific step that can be challenged by European bureaucracy to take Hungary to task more broadly for embracing illiberalism.
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