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Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen meeting in Brussels last year. Hungary has ignored the commission's concerns for a decade (Photo: European Commission)

EU starts unprecedented rule-of-law probe against Hungary

In an unprecedented move, the EU Commission on Wednesday (27 April) launched a new probe against Hungary that could result in it suspending EU funds for nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán's country.

The procedure was finally triggered — for the first time in EU history — over long-standing concerns on corruption, over Orbán's allies syphoning EU money to their pockets, and over the ways Budapest manages and audits the billions of euros of subsidies it gets from the bloc.

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen meeting in Brussels last year. Hungary has ignored the commission's concerns for a decade (Photo: European Commission)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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