“…what is unlawful cannot be left without a word! We can’t keep that EU legislation in force, which seriously infringes legal certainty, thus, as we promised last year, we are challenging the rule on conditionality before the Court of Justice of the European Union, together with Poland. Let common sense win again!” – wrote Minister of Justice Judit Varga in her Facebook post on Thursday, confirming that Budapest and Warsaw will take the EU’s January 1 rule of law mechanism to the EU Court.

PM Orban: We Stopped Ukraine’s EU Accession + Video
“It was an ugly job. The ugliest so far,” the Hungarian prime minister told reporter Daniel Bohar in an interview after the EU Summit.