Hungary has set lofty ambitions for its time at the top of the European Council, but a lack of political goodwill and difficult timing – as the EU continues to transition into the next term – means Budapest is more likely to simply freeze the EU’s most important priorities. “Make Europe Great Again.” That’s the motto of the Hungary’s EU Presidency of the Council of the EU, which begins on 1 July, but it is likely to mean just as little as the US version. MEGA doesn’t mean much on its own.
