![The European Parliament vs. the Hungarian Government](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/09/european_parliament_brussels_plenary.png)
For the first time ever, on September 12, the European Parliament (EP) launched Article 7 TEU (Lisbon Treaty) proceedings against Hungary’s government. The Parliament began the action by adopting a report by Judith Sargentini, a member from the Netherlands. The report lists 12 major concerns from the functioning of the constitutional and the electoral system [...]