The move comes two days after nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a fourth consecutive term.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban departs after voting at a polling station in Budapest on Sunday. a fourth consecutive term, European Union officials on Tuesday moved to hold Hungary accountable for what the bloc’s leaders say are violations of the rule of law, initiating for the first time a procedure that could withhold billions of euros in subsidies.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the immediate concern was about corruption.
Von der Leyen said a formal letter was on its way to Budapest outlining the intentions of the E.U.'s executive arm to trigger what’s known as the “conditionality mechanism.”At least 15 of the 27 member states — representing about 290 million people out of the total population of more than 440 million — would need to endorse it. From start to finish, cutting funds could take between six to eight months, an E.U. official said Tuesday.
Orban taunted the E.U. in his victory speech on Sunday night. “We won a victory so big that you can perhaps see it from the moon, and certainly from Brussels,” he said. Many political analysts, though, say Orban and his party have been able to stay in power exactly because of the antidemocratic actions — remaking the constitution, quashing dissent, exerting control over the media, undermining judicial independence — that have drawn criticism from E.U. officials in Brussels and other European leaders over the years.Poland has similarly been locked in conflict with Brussels over the independence of its judiciary and other legal standards.
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