The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... Hungary seem to have solidified the notion in European officialdom that it is an issue they have to resolve and indeed quickly - Hungary looks already lost. The argument that issues of democracy should remain the member states’ competence and that ... ... see itself as a normative power, one that sets and promotes the norm - that is, of course, the basic values: democracy, the rule of law, and human rights including the rights of minorities - if one or more of its members, and therefore the Union as such,...