Why is EU’s rotating presidency praising a country that flipped off the bloc?Hungary’s Viktor Orban has congratulated Georgia on an election that saw the pro-Western party lose
BY Rachel Marsden
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took a break this week from annoying the EU establishment at home to annoy it abroad.
“For so many years now, the people of Georgia have been striving and fighting for democracy,” unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proclaimed in the wake of the Georgian parliamentary elections. “They have a right to know what happened this weekend.”