{"id":41998,"date":"2018-09-13T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41998"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:37:05","slug":"poland-says-it-will-block-any-eu-sanctions-against-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/poland-says-it-will-block-any-eu-sanctions-against-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland says it will block any EU sanctions against Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warsaw<br \/>\nPoland, the biggest former communist country in the European Union, said it will oppose any sanctions imposed by the bloc on fellow member Hungary, accused of floating EU rules on democracy.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery country has its sovereign right to make internal reforms it deems appropriate,\u201d Poland\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActions aimed against member states serve only deepening divides in the EU, increasing citizens\u2019 current lack of confidence to European institutions.\u201d<br \/>\nThe European Parliament voted on Wednesday to sanction Hungary for neglecting norms on democracy, civil rights and corruption in a first bid to launch the punitive process of the EU treaty\u2019s Article 7.<\/p>\n<p>Since sweeping to power in 2010, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, once a campaigner against Hungary\u2019s Soviet Communist overlords, has used his parliamentary majority to pressure courts, media and non-government groups.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warsaw Poland, the biggest former communist country in the European Union, said it will oppose any sanctions imposed by the bloc on fellow member Hungary, accused of floating EU rules on democracy. \u201cEvery country has its sovereign right to make internal reforms it deems appropriate,\u201d Poland\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42000,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41998\/revisions\/42000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}