Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowed Tuesday that Hungary would resist any attempt to “blackmail” it into softening its anti-migrant stance, on the eve of an EU parliament vote to censure his populist government. Orban denounced as insulting to Hungary’s honour a report presented to the Strasbourg assembly that accuses his government of posing a “systemic threat” to the democratic values on which the European Union was founded. MEPs will vote Wednesday on whether to launch a procedure that could lead to unprecedented political sanctions against EU member Hungary and deepen the continental divide between centrist pro-European parties and populist anti-migrant forces.
