Hungary Rejects Macron's ‘Arrogance’ as EU Reform-Fight Looms
- French plan is a ‘smorgasbord’ of varying quality, Gulyas says
- Hungary sees EU split preventing rule-of-law sanctions
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to bring to heel renegade European Union nations as part of a drive to reform the bloc smacks of arrogance and will fail, a senior Hungarian ruling party official said.
Unanimity is required both to change the EU constitution and approve a multi-year, post-2020 EU budget. That means proposed sanctions on countries like Hungary and Poland for alleged rule-of-law violations won’t gain traction, according to Gergely Gulyas, parliamentary leader of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party.