The European Union is running out of patience for Hungary to come in line with the bloc's democratic norms and rule-of-law values. The ex-communist country of nearly 10M people is accused of systemic irregularities in judicial independence, weaknesses in constitutional and electoral systems, and deficiencies in anti-graft measures. EU legislators last week even voted to declare that Budapest was no longer a "full democracy" under the so-called "conditionality mechanism" and have since threatened to freeze €7.5B in funding unless it takes action to stamp out fraud and corruption.
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