A full decade of waiting and NOW the EU decides that Hungarian totalitarianism might be problematic. After waiting a decade to do it, they basically will probably have waited just long enough Orban can rely on a rally behind the flag notion and Euroskepticism just enough to keep himself in power, because after all a decade is a long time to not give a fuck about a rising dictator until it became politically convenient to decide to do so.

The Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe never really changed that much from the end of the Soviet bloc, and how hollow those changes actually proved well west of Russia are easily proven by the Yugoslav Wars, Orban, and the rise of the new tinpot dictators to succeed the older ones of the 1920s.