It has restricted media pluralism, curtailed the rights of migrants, passed laws against gay and trans content in schools and restricted the freedom of civil society, all of which could be seen as violating broader conceptions of the rule of law. The Hungarian government has violated both the narrow and broad understandings of the rule of law.
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The EU is unlikely to be able to prevent the Hungarian government from having a broader approach that promotes an ethnically-exclusive vision of the nation Scholars are divided between those who see the rule of law as covering only the idea that the authority of the government must come from identifiable, non-arbitrary rules that are interpreted by independent judges, and those who take a broader view that the principle also requires that the law respect certain fundamental values such as non-discrimination. His sympathetic approach to Vladimir Putin has alienated former allies, and legislation permitting funding cuts for breaches of the rule of law was upheld by the Court of Justice of the European Union in February. Viktor Orban’s government is in a more vulnerable position than before. But what will this action look like and what can and can’t we expect from EU action in this area?
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The European Union finally seems to be on the point of acting against Hungary for its embrace of “illiberal democracy”.