Under their agreements with the EU, members are required to maintain democratic values, and the commission has no reason to conclude from a speech made at a summer university course that Hungary would give up its contracted obligations, the spokesman said.

Last Saturday, Orbán attended the 25th Bálványos summer university and student camp, a major event for Romania’s ethnic Hungarian community, and said that Hungary would switch over to a “labourbased state of a non-liberal nature”. In his address, the prime minister also criticised “paid political activists” whom he suggested were proponents of foreign interests in Hungary.

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