defending

17 January 2012

The EU has convinced itself that Hungary’s government is taking the country on an anti-democratic path.  Ever since the furore over the Hungary’s new media law in January 2011, which conveniently for the government’s critics, blew up as Hungary was to assume the Presidency of the EU, Budapest politics have hardly been out of the news.  The adoption of a new constitution has been badly received and associated laws – particularly in relation to the management of the Hungarian Central Bank – have also generated an avalanche of protest.