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Discrimination against EU companies: Commission avoids confrontation with Orbán

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Published: September 13th, 2024,
Last updated: September 19th, 2024

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the EU summit.
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High-level corruption that goes unpunished, courts that follow the same rules, discriminatory LGBTQ laws: The EU Commission has taken vigorous action against many abuses in Hungary. It has frozen billions in funds and taken Budapest to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). However, the Brussels authority is conspicuously hesitant to react when Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government uses harsh methods to force companies from other EU states out of the country. This approach affects a core area of the European project: the internal market.

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