Hungary took over the rolling six-month presidency of the European Union on January 1st. On the same day, its government introduced a new law severely restricting the freedom of the Hungarian media. This scandalous law of censorship is an outrageous attack on fundamental human rights and contravenes the very founding principles of the European Treaty, says Mediapart Editor-in-Chief Edwy Plenel. If the EU takes no action against Hungary, it will have betrayed its very reasons for being and, in the process, give a green light to the politics of authoritarianism now sweeping the continent.
On January 1st, Hungary took over the rolling six-month presidency of the European Union. On the same day, its government introduced a new law severely restricting the freedom of the Hungarian media. Here, Mediapart Editor-in-Chief Edwy Plenel argues that if this scandalous law of censorship, an outrageous attack on fundamental human rights, is left unchallenged by the EU it will give a green light to the politics of authoritarianism now sweeping the continent.
