Ursula von der Leyen has never been so clear in her criticism of Viktor Orbán. Step by step, the Commission President took apart the presentation by Hungary’s head of government, who had previously presented the agenda for Hungary’s EU Council Presidency. For example on the topic of competitiveness, the focus of the informal summit on Nov. 8 in Budapest: barriers must be removed so that companies can grow across borders, warned Ursula von der Leyen. However, a government in the EU is heading in exactly the opposite direction and drifting away from the single market: „How can a government attract more European investment if it simultaneously discriminates against European companies by taxing them more heavily than others?“