[Newsweek] The EU's Democratic Backsliding Against Poland & Hungary

The bloc uses the fuzzy notion of “rule of law” as a cudgel against conservative governments, but Poland and Hungary have chosen to stand up instead of bowing down.

Americans and Europeans should realize how similar our respective experiments in political unity have proven to be. If congressional showdowns over debt ceilings and shutdowns sound familiar to Europeans, it’s because our leaders also can’t seem to agree on a path forward unless a crisis of the largest magnitude forces them to, and even in an emergency, they take every opportunity to press a partisan advantage. The EU is currently trying to leverage coronavirus relief to force compliance from conservative governments in Poland and Hungary, putting the entire continent’s financial stability at risk.

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