Europe looks away

Europe is not interested in Hungary's new constitution and is thereby ignoring a violation of constitutional principles, the left-liberal daily La Repubblica writes: "God, the fatherland and national pride. The state defines itself in national and ethical terms and no longer as a republic. Less power for the constitutional court, more power for the government over the judiciary and the media. The authoritarian Europe of the 1920s and 1930s is apparently making a comeback in the shape of the new constitution of a country that currently holds the rotating EU presidency and is a member of Nato. And the EU, which imposed sanctions against Austria when Jörg Haider obtained seats in the Viennese parliament even though no laws were changed, today remains silent. With the new constitution adopted by the Hungarian parliament at the behest of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Europe is moving away from the fundamental values of the constitutional state."

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