Commentary
Security
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A Manifesto For Czech Membership in NATO’s Nuclear Sharing Club
3 February 2023
19 December 2018
The EU institutions should step up with complementary and comprehensive measures against antidemocratic member states that are undermining the rule of law, including the increasingly authoritarian Hungarian government.
The Orbán regime has entered a new authoritarian level. Democratically elected members of the parliament were forcibly thrown out from the state television’s building on Monday.
There was no disorder; they only wanted to get their petition to be read on air in the otherwise well-functioning governmental propaganda machine, but instead of being welcomed by the so-called “fake news” editor Dániel Papp, they were met by armed security services.
The situation is also riddled with systemic irony in the fact that such infringements will soon be dealt with the newly-established parallel administrative courts whose members are appointed by the Minister of Justice.