mean. this is deja vu news live from berlin the european parliament votes to sanction hungary for undermining democracy in europe thanks the first time such a procedure has been launched in the history of the parliament budapest announced the vote is heading where bench it is bound to define it we ask our brussels correspondent what happens next. also coming up on live our whole condemns the violence at recent demonstrations against migrants in eastern germany and says

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i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us in an unprecedented move the european parliament has passed a motion to punish the government of hungry for undermining core in u. values lawmakers voted by a large margin to trigger the article seven process that could result in sanctions that would strip hungry of its you voting rights a recent report criticized prime minister viktor orban populist government for silencing the media dismissing independent judges and courage and graft now in an earlier speech to the parliament or been accused pro migrant forces in the eve you of threatening to blackmail hungrily. let's go right to due to abuse correspondent max hoffman who is standing by for us in strasburg following this debate for us hi max good to see you so the e.u. parliament voted today in favor of triggering article seven what does this mean for a hungry what happens next. well first of all this is largely symbolic obviously

because it's never happened before now as to actual effects we will have to wait because this is just the first stage of a rather lengthy process where at some point actually the next step the member states are involved and they have to decide with a fourth or fifth majority that yes they see the risk of a breach of the fundamentals of the european union and after that there is more involved just to give you the summary of it at the end in order to really have you know the stripping of the e.u. voting rights so this nuclear option that you talked about you need unanimity among the member states at this point this doesn't seem likely but a lot of things can change during a process like that all right so a long road still ahead max but what does this all mean a from the e.u. perspective. we really really see this rift now very clearly between especially some eastern european states like hungary and poland that are both caught up now in an article seven procedure and basically the other countries

the topics here are rule of law solidarity also in the migration crisis close euchre coincidentally had his state of the union speech here at the parliament today and of course he addressed those issues he also said we need to be unified if we want to be an important player on the global stage and of course that's kind of a contradiction if you look at it so i asked him in a short interview we had after state of the union what he was going to do about this contradiction. he mentioned by talking to people here that everyone agrees with me in saying almost with pathos we've got to move closer together sometimes the differences can be monumental because we can't allow this but i'm very much against widening this gap between east and west father there are also many issues that we can agree on of a goodly number could just take the top one speech on tuesday he was uncooperative

you wouldn't compromise how are you going to rein him in again the bones of the india i'm struck as a dozen i've actually given.