Earlier in July, various media sources reported that Hungary had quietly changed the rules for its National Card program to allow Russian and Belarusian citizens to enter the country in a streamlined visa-acquisition process that does away with enhanced security checks or other restrictions.
Aren’t visas a Schenghen matter?
That’s the contention. Orban is unilaterally letting Russian spies into the entirety of the Schengen zone.
The EU’s main recourse, should putting pressure on Hungary to desist fail, would be to impose emergency border controls on borders with Hungary, which could be seen as a symbolic step towards Hungary’s journey from the EU to the russkiy mir