The activation of the conditionality mechanism against Hungary: better late than never!
A year and a half after the entry into force of Regulation no. 2092/2020 on democratic conditionality – a period of time in which the European Parliament adopted a series of resolutions and issued an action for failure to act against the Commission for not having yet activated the mechanism – on 27 April 2022, the Guardian of the Treaties instructed the budget holder, Johannes Hahn, to send the formal notification for the instrument’s launch against Hungary.