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
Andrzej Duda, center, in Pultusk, Poland, on July 12.Photographer: Piotr Malecki/Bloomberg
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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.