Orbán has become a European pariah

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday demanded that the EU Commission justify its plans to institute proceedings against Hungary regarding three cases of treaty violation. Orbán is now utterly isolated, writes the oppositional left-liberal daily Népszabadság: "It has taken Viktor Orbán just one and a half years to hit rock bottom. This is not only embarrassing for us, but also for the Western governments who don't know what to make of their former ally. Could the West join forces to topple Orbán? ... Ultimately it did just that with the Italian Berlusconi and the Greek Papandreou, replacing them with predictable and sober technocrats. ... But Hungary is a hard nut to crack: getting rid of a prime minister who's sitting on a two-thirds parliamentary majority is no easy task. Not to mention in a country where the opposition is in a sorry state. ... The EU Commission has now finally threatened to initiate proceedings against Hungary for three treaty violations. In so doing it signals that Orbán's unrestrained concentration of power and his government's unorthodox economic policy are raising serious concerns in Brussels."

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