What happened in the EU in September 2018?
On 11 September, the European Parliament invited Hungary's Prime Minister to talk about the situation of Hungary's democracy. Many accused the leader to centralise power too much (read also this). So a majority said the EU should give Hungary a penalty (article).
No one really believed Hungary would get any kind of penalty from the EU. Even if it was a hard debate, some of Hungary's friends will never agree to it. So it was a way for the politicians to show what they thought. Interested to see the debate? Here are the videos.
© EU, 2018 / Photo: Etienne Ansotte
Even if many of his colleagues criticised the Hungarian leader, they sat at the same table just one week later as in the picture above. Business as usual. But the debate was so hard, many forgot that the President of the Commission gave his yearly speech the day after. In that speech, the President said the UK can't pick and choose with Brexit (article).
A tip to read for those that like to read long but interesting articles: here's how Poland (and Europe) got more conflicted over the last 20 years (article).
Some good news also: there's a plan to make public science available to everyone by 2020 (article).
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