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Just as an added fact, for those who don't know it, Hungary is currently ruled by an extreme right-wing party which is pretty much doing away with democracy.

Edit: The EU is considering if measures should be taken; I hope they will, and fast.

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I hope Hungary will not get financial aid from IMF and ECB (if I remember correctly) or will make it extremely hard to get it. That will harm Hungary in short term but in long term it will be good for all the Europe. It will send very good signal for all other Europe countries where right-wing extremists do stupid things (especially Eastern Europe).

P.S. I'm from Eastern European country and I see some similarities with Hungary.

I would like even more the EU to have a direct way of dealing with this kind of situations, but for now I agree with you - that's the fastest way to pressure the Hungarian government.

The current Hungarian government is not extreme right-wing, but surely undemocratic. But they changed the work code in favour of Mr. Andor Jakab. There is a new mass movement against the government, based on the trade unions. A new democratic government would mean an unhappy Mr. Andor Jakab.

Right-wing label does not mean anything. The same's true for left-wing label.

Politics has more than one dimension, and we're not even sure which dimension is described by this left-right dychotomy.

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