"Hungary has forfeited the right to vote"

(ADW) For Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, the current policies of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán are a thorn in his side. In an interview in the current edition of German magazine Spiegel, Asselborn did not mince his words. He believes that Orbán's government undermines the fundamental values of democratic law.

In Hungary the freedom of expression is to be abolished, tighter controls of the media are to take place and judges loyal to the regime may be used. It draws a comparison, states the Foreign Minister, to the dictatorship system in Belarus. At the same time he accused the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, of keeping a “protective hand” over Orbán.