EU says Orban doesn’t represent bloc in Georgia

“Viktor Orban is clear that he wants more authoritarian, anti-democratic, pro-Russian actors in the European political sphere,” said Julien Hoez, the editor of The French Dispatch and a geopolitical consultant.

Hoez said he believed that the European Union might draft a unified condemnation at an upcoming meeting. “There’s an informal council on 8 November in Budapest that may lead to something, and a foreign affairs council on 18 November, that will likely build on it,” Hoez said. “The EU can launch targeted sanctions on the actors related to this egregious electoral fraud.”