When the European Moral Vacuum Meets the Hungarian Autocratic Regime

The situation is highly interesting, even from a theoretical viewpoint, since the country is a Member State of the European Union as well as of the Council of Europe, yet the framework of an anti-democratic regime has already been created. [...] Under the new laws, only a restricted list of people (including the Government, Ombudsman, President of the Supreme Court, etc.) may turn to the Constitutional Court after the adoption of 1     new legislation by the Parliament. [...] 5     Back To Hungary: Future Scenarios For The Application Of Article 7 – Would It Do The Job? As a consequence of the Hungarian political situation and of the underperforming economy, about 200 to 600 thousand Hungarians have already left the country, with heavy migration towards western European countries such as Germany and the UK. [...] Knowing these numbers, what is presently going on in the country is merely making the legal system conform to the will of the people – or at least, to that of the majority, and thereby, interestingly, the country has become more democratic: its people simply do not want proper democracy. [...] The key to how a state develops is the propagation of democratic values and the slow transformation of society, and in the case of Hungary this could also be the key to moving back to democracy.