Economics
Populists in East Expose EU’s Weakness Before Critical Summit
- Hungary voted on Tuesday to threaten veto against EU plan
- Poland’s president wins new term after anti-Brussels campaign
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As European Union leaders haggle over a coronavirus recovery plan, they have a headache in the east that just won’t go away.
Hungary’s parliament approved a resolution on Tuesday that calls on Prime Minister Viktor Orban to reject the EU’s proposal and its seven-year budget until it withdraws an investigation into democratic rule of law in the country.