Refrain from stigmatising Hungary and bring the debate back into the member states’ hands: that is what the EU affairs ministers tried to do on 18 November in Brussels as they discussed potential ways to protect the EU’s values and the rule of law across the Union.
Though no one pointed a finger at him, Hungary’s Conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was the prime example on everyone’s mind. Orbán was already highly controversial for his constitutional reforms that were seen…