Update: On Monday, Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoed controversial judicial reforms that had prompted huge street protests and threats of unprecedented EU sanctions.
"In the interest of Europe and in the spirit of the old Hungarian-Polish friendship, the inquisition campaign against
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Orban made the remarks during an annual speech at a summer university in the town of
Polish senior officials were among those attending the conservative gathering.
It is the latest in a slew of controversial legal changes that the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party says are necessary to make the judicial system more effective and fight against corruption.
But the EU has warned that the measures "considerably increase the systemic threat to the rule of law".
The European Commission threatened this week to move towards halting
Together with
The members regularly clash with the EU over their increasingly nationalist and anti-immigration stances.
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He once again accused the "
"It is obvious that the culture of the migrants is strongly opposed to the Europeans, to let them live next to each other leads to chaos," the 54-year-old strongman said.
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