Hungary angered by EU's not 'full democracy' tag

STRASBOURG, France－Hungary reacted furiously on Thursday to a vote in the European Parliament that declared that the country was no longer a "full democracy" and that the European Union needed to act.

The response came after members of the European Parliament voted 433-123 in favor of the resolution. It described Hungary as "a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy" in "serious breach" of EU democratic norms.

It blamed EU inaction for having encouraged the slide away from democracy and said the bloc's COVID-19 recovery funds should be withheld from Budapest until it put its house in order.