Hungary Becomes First ‘Partly Free’ EU Nation in Democracy Gauge
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Hungary has become the first European Union country to be designated as “partly free” in an annual gauge of democratic freedoms, underscoring the effects of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s drive to create an illiberal state.
The erosion of democracy under Orban constitutes “the most dramatic decline ever charted” in the EU, Freedom House, a Washington-based think-tank, said in its annual Freedom in the World report. All other 27 EU members retained a “free” label.