On October 3, 2024, The
European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, filed a legal complaint
against the E.U. state of Hungary with the E.U.’s judicial branch—the high court
of which being the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The Commission had won a
case against the state and recently subtracted the amount of fine issued by the
court from the federal money set to go to the state because the Hungarian
government was refusing to recognize the verdict. Like Britain before it had
seceded from the Union, Hungary was operating under the incorrect premise that
it still enjoyed full sovereignty even though every state delegates some of its
governmental sovereignty to the Union in becoming a state thereof. In the case
of Hungary, the state law at issue in 2024 had in its very name the fundamental
problem out of which the state’s disputes with the E.U. were emanating.
The full essay is at "Hungary's Delusion of Soveriegnty."
