The "shoe on the other foot" expression implies that the two situations are the same, or at the very least comparable The situation in hungary is the governmen

The "shoe on the other foot" expression implies that the two situations are the same, or at the very least comparable The situation in hungary is the government violating core principles that stand at the heart of the EU with behaviours that, were Hungary applying for membership right now would see them rejected outright Right now germany is signalling they might vote against a proposed change in ordinary law. That's how laws are made, some actors vote for, some vote against and if there's enough actors in favour the law becomes such and binds all It'd be remotely comparable if Germany were refusing to comply with an adopted law, and even then comparing rule of law principles with commercial regulations would be distasteful at best