“Hungary belongs in political quarantine,” Jean Asselborn said in an interview with German newspaper die Welt.
The Luxembourgish minister responded to Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s open-ended right to rule by decree.
The chief diplomat argued that governments that proceed uncontrolled by parliaments for an unlimited period of time should not decide on matters affecting all European citizens, and thus their ministers could not have a voice during ministerial councils.
Hungary has already raised the Commission’s hackles by expanding state control over the media, academics and rights groups, Aljazeera reported.
In a statement, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that “any emergency measures must be limited to what is necessary and strictly proportionate. They must not last indefinitely ... governments must make sure that such measures are subject to regular scrutiny.”
