FILE PHOTO: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks to the media after meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street in London, Britain May 28, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The top European Union court dismissed on Thursday Hungary's challenge against the opening in 2018 of a disciplinary procedure against Budapest for undermining democracy in the formerly communist country.
Budapest had challenged on procedural grounds a European Parliament vote three years ago stating that Prime Minister Viktor Orban's policies were posing "a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded."
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