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<li><div class="ep-p_text"><span class="ep_name">Lack of progress in the Article 7 process would amount to a rule of law breach by the Council</span><span class="ep_icon"> </span></div></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ep_gridcolumn ep-m_product" data-view1200="6" data-view1020="6" data-view750="10" data-view640="6" data-view480="8" data-view320="4"> <div class="ep_gridcolumn-content"> <div class="ep-a_media"> <figure> <div class="ep_media ep-layout_image"> <div class="ep-p_image ep-layout_original"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/images/20220909PHT40126/20220909PHT40126_original.jpg" title="Open in a new window" target="_blank"> <div class="ep_image"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936im_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/images/20220909PHT40126/20220909PHT40126-cl.jpg" alt="Parliament's report shows how the Hungarian government's deliberate efforts have resulted in an "electoral autocracy" ©Attila KISBENEDEK/AFP"/> <span class="ep_small" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936im_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/images/20220909PHT40126/20220909PHT40126-cs.jpg);"> </span> <span class="ep_medium" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936im_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/images/20220909PHT40126/20220909PHT40126-cm.jpg);"> </span> <span class="ep_large" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936im_/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/images/20220909PHT40126/20220909PHT40126-cl.jpg);"> </span> <span class="ep_icon"> </span> </div> </a> </div> </div> <figcaption class="ep_text"> <div class="ep-p_text ep-layout_legend"> <span class="ep_name">Parliament's report shows how the Hungarian government's deliberate efforts have resulted in an "electoral autocracy" ©Attila KISBENEDEK/AFP</span> <span class="ep_icon"> </span> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ep_gridcolumn ep-m_product" data-view1200="6" data-view1020="6" data-view750="10" data-view640="6" data-view480="8" data-view320="4"> <div class="ep_gridcolumn-content"> <div class="ep-a_text ep-layout_chapo"> <p>Parliament condemns the “deliberate and systematic efforts of the Hungarian government” to undermine European values and demands results in the Article 7 process.</p> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="ep_gridcolumn ep-m_product" data-view1200="6" data-view1020="6" data-view750="10" data-view640="6" data-view480="8" data-view320="4"> <div class="ep_gridcolumn-content"> <div class="ep-a_text"><p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph">The lack of decisive EU action has contributed to the emergence of a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”, i.e. a constitutional system in which elections occur, but respect for democratic norms and standards is absent, MEPs say.</p> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph">The report adopted on Thursday, with 433 votes for, 123 against, and 28 abstentions, builds on the one with which <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2018-0340_EN.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parliament triggered the Article 7 procedure</a> in 2018, to provide an overview of developments in Parliament’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR12104/rule-of-law-in-hungary-parliament-calls-on-the-eu-to-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12 areas of concern</a>. It thereby demonstrates how the values enshrined in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/teu_2012/art_2/oj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Article 2 of the EU Treaties</a>, including democracy and fundamental rights in the country have further deteriorated since 2018, through the “deliberate and systematic efforts of the Hungarian government”, and exacerbated by EU inaction.</p> <br/> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph"><strong>EU institutions need to act and must also be held accountable</strong></p> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph">Parliament deplores the inability of the Council to make meaningful progress to counter democratic backsliding. MEPs emphasise that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A12012M007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Article 7(1)</a> does not require unanimity among member states to identify a clear risk of a serious breach of EU values, nor to issue concrete recommendations and deadlines. They say any further delay in acting under Article 7 rules to protect EU values in Hungary would amount to a breach of the principle of the rule of law by the Council itself.</p> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph"></p> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph">MEPs urge the Commission to make full use of all tools at its disposal and, in particular, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220304IPR24802/rule-of-law-conditionality-commission-must-immediately-initiate-proceedings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget conditionality</a> regulation. At a time when EU values are especially under threat by the Russian war against Ukraine and its anti-EU actions, they also call on the Commission to:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211001IPR14015/hungary-and-poland-plans-should-be-approved-only-if-concerns-are-addressed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refrain from approving the Hungarian RRF plan</a> until Hungary has fully complied with all relevant European Semester recommendations and implemented all the relevant judgements of the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights;</li> <li>exclude from funding those cohesion programmes contributing to the misuse of EU funds or to breaches of the rule of law; and</li> <li>apply the Common Provisions Regulation and the Financial Regulation more stringently in order to tackle any misuse of EU funds for political motives.</li> </ul> <br/> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph"><strong>Independence of the judiciary, corruption and human freedoms remain key EP’s concerns</strong></p> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph">Four years after the report that started the Article 7 process, MEPs remain concerned about several political areas concerning democracy and fundamental rights in Hungary. Some of the main areas are the functioning of its constitutional and electoral system, the independence of the judiciary, corruption and conflicts of interest and freedom of expression, including media pluralism. Academic freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of association, the right to equal treatment, including LGBTIQ rights, the rights of minorities, as well as those of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, are also problematic.</p> <br/> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph"><strong>Quote</strong></p> <p class="ep-wysiwig_paragraph"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220915103936/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197531/GWENDOLINE_DELBOS-CORFIELD/home#detailedcardmep" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Greens/EFA, FR)</a>, Parliament’s rapporteur on the situation in Hungary, said: “The conclusions of this report are clear and irrevocable: Hungary is not a democracy. It was more urgent than ever for the Parliament to take this stance, considering the alarming rate at which rule of law is backsliding in Hungary. Beyond acknowledging Fidesz’s autocratic strategy, the large majority of MEPs supporting this position in the European Parliament is unprecedented. 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