Budapest and Brussels Butt Heads

Many may have thought that Hungary, which currently holds the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union until the end of the year, would lay low in August. It’s vacation season and, essentially, the Brussels machinery grinds to a halt. But then, at the end of July, Budapest announced that it would expand its “national card” immigration program to include Belarusians and Russians, as well as citizens from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, and North Macedonia. (Serbians and Ukrainians were already on the list.) The…