{"id":15023,"date":"2018-09-14T05:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15023"},"modified":"2018-09-14T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:24:17","slug":"european-parliament-makes-history-with-hungary-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15023","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament makes history with Hungary vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"88\">\n<p>For the first time ever, the European Parliament has voted to sanction a member state.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary is accused of flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption, with government attacks on the courts and media seen as a threat to the Euopean rules-based order.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations triggered the vote which could mean Hungary can get stripped of its EU voting rights, but analysts say that&#8217;s unlikely to happen as its ally Poland, which is also facing sanctions, is expected to veto such a move.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Foreign Minister\u00a0Peter Szijjarto said the vote was &#8220;petty revenge&#8221; for the country&#8217;s strong stance against immigration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed the parliament&#8217;s decision was &#8220;fraudulent&#8221; as abstentions were not counted in the final 448-197 vote.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s next for Hungary\u2026 and indeed Europe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong>\u00a0Hoda Abdel-Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pieter Cleppe &#8211; head of the Brussels office for the think-tank, Open Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Mycielski &#8211; director of public affairs at the Polish-based Open Dialogue Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>Baptiste Roger-Lacan &#8211; the founder of pro-EU think-tank, Le Grand Continent.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, the European Parliament has voted to sanction a member state. Hungary is accused of flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption, with government attacks on the courts and media seen as a threat to the Euopean rules-based order. The allegations triggered the vote which could mean Hungary can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}