On 1 July 2024, Hungary will take over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union. Already, voices are being raised to withdraw it: the European Parliament has voted a resolution, Germany and Holland have expressed reservations. Victor Orban, Prime Minister elected and re-elected since 2010, is the cause. In 2011, he presided over the European Union in an electric atmosphere. Since then, Orban has never missed an opportunity to play the rebel who fights with his bare hands against the empire of the norm, while demanding money. It's tiresome.
But everything changes. The Hungarian Prime Minister has lost Vladimir Putin an important ally. Is the ambiguous Orban illiberal in the same way as the Russian big brother? No. He plays on the many meanings of the word and he horrifies the virtuous, which does not displease him. However, Orban has always vigorously defended himself for having made his country a "democrat". In 2019, when Green MEP Judith Sargentini published an incriminating report...
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