Hungary, Poland Veer Off Course as EU Weighs Covid Bailouts
- EU report on rule of law raises concerns over two nations
- Report cites Polish court ruling defying primacy of EU law
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European Union renegades Poland and Hungary were singled out yet again in an EU report pointing to the widening chasm between the duo’s populist regimes and the bloc’s democratic standards.
The two nations remain a cause of “serious concern” after a swathe of new rules curtailed the independence of courts and judges, according to a European Commission report on the “rule of law” across the 27-nation bloc.