“Let’s coax Brussels!” creaks the liberal weekly Weekly Entertainment (HVG) of September 22. This provocative title refers to the government campaign “Let’s stop Brussels!” of spring 2017, reacts to Hungarian promises of reforms in order to avoid losing 7.5 billion euros of cohesion funds, the blocking of which is recommended by the European Commission. Accused of undermining EU values and fraudulent European subsidies, Hungary has until November 19 to respond to “concerns” from Brussels.
On the cover of the magazine, the Minister responsible for negotiations with the European Union, Tibor Navracsics, writes on a blackboard the sentence “We won’t fly anymore” like a schoolboy’s punishment, under the gaze of the President of the Commission