Jean-Claude Juncker didn’t explicitly mention Hungary in his state of the union speech in Strasbourg on Wednesday. In a speech that focused on the EU’s place in the world, Juncker set out 18 new ideas. Juncker’s mantra is that the EU will be small on the small things and big on the big things. Within hours of the state of the union speech, the European Parliament took the unprecedented step of rebuking Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán over possible breaches of EU rules and values. It is already freezing EU action in some spheres and impeding its ability to speak with one voice in others.

Source: The Irish Times September 13, 2018 23:03 UTC