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Noah Buyon is a research analyst at Freedom House.
Today, Slovenia assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, and for the next six months, Prime Minister Janez Janša’s government will set the tone for EU policymaking.
He will need to be watched carefully. As the author of the most dramatic episode of democratic backsliding in independent Slovenia’s history, Janša is taking his country down the same path as its Hungarian neighbor, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has turned his back on democracy and European values.
Only a decade ago, just before Hungary assumed the Council’s presidency, international news media tracking Orbán’s early antidemocratic moves sounded “warnings over press freedom” in the country. Journalists also noted the Hungarian government had installed, as part of its “showcase” in the Council building, a rug featuring a map of the country’s pre-World-War-I borders, a prominent nationalist symbol.
FISCAL BATTLE, THE SOUTHERN CAMP: The debate on Europe’s future fiscal governance is picking up pace. On Wednesday, Playbook reported on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position in favor of “sound fiscal policy,” coming on the heels of similar statements from so-called frugal countries, including Austria and the Netherlands.
The opposing camp is also being vocal, with Nadia Calviño, Spain’s minister in charge of economic affairs and digitalization, saying the bloc’s rules “were not fit for purpose before the pandemic hit us.” She told me in an interview at POLITICO’s Competitive Europe Summit on Wednesday that “it would be wise to review these rules before we go back to the normal situation” of reapplying them in 2023.
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