Insolent Hungary deserves EU sanctions

The EU Commission will decide today, Wednesday, whether to block Hungary's access to the Cohesion Fund. The country has failed for years to keep its budget deficit below the limit of three percent of its GDP. The left-liberal daily Népszabadság looks at why Hungary is on the agenda in Brussels: "This sanction has never yet been imposed on a member state. Not even on the Greeks, who conned the EU for years and really deserve it. … The Poles, Belgians and Cypriots have not been threatened with sanctions yet, but they're all sitting in the same boat as us Hungarians and their situation is just as dire. They have repeatedly been told to consolidate their budgets and bring their deficits below the three-percent of GDP limit. They, too, have been fighting for years against a deficit and they, too, pin the blame on the devastating legacy of previous governments. But they are less insolent than Hungary, which is why the teacher is not rapping them across the knuckles."

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