Brussels will soon discuss an EU report on the rule of law, but Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto believes it will be a political statement, rather than any well-founded assessment.
Budapest and Warsaw in turn are setting up a joint institute to assess the state of rule of law across EU member states so that they are “not taken for fools” over allegations of rule of law breaches, Szijjarto said on Monday, lamenting that he’d “had enough of some western European politicians using us as a punchbag.”
