EU's east-west schism 'is a bigger worry than Brexit'

EU's east-west schism 'is a bigger worry than Brexit':
     "In March 2017, after three years, the European Commission gave Hungary the go-ahead to expand its Soviet-era nuclear power station at Paks, 75 miles from its capital, Budapest.
The deal with Russia was worth €12.5bn (£11bn), for which the Kremlin offered 100pc of the financing required.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin settled the deal in person.
This deal – a tactical defeat in the long-running battle between the EC to make its member states less dependent on Russian energy – is not the “nuclear option” that dominates the headlines.
Instead, eyes have turned to Poland as the schism between the harder-Right governments of central and eastern European nations and western Europe’s more liberally governed France and Germany grows deeper.
Poland’s judicial reform bill threatens the independence of the judiciary, and goes against the principles of separation..."