Kovacs responds to Danish foreign minister: 'Rule of law in Hungary alive and well'

Reacting to an article by Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod claiming that Poland and Hungary jeopardised the very foundations of the European Union, Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for international communications and relations, said that Kofod's view was an outlier, even within his own government. In the response published by the Alting news portal on Wednesday, Kovacs said the assertion that Hungary and Poland had "trampled" on democratic values by undermining the independence of the judiciary and stifling media freedom was "a crude statement" unattached to "any irrefutable facts".