You are trying to justify a coup. A coup by a minority of the population that has a distorted view of history as a result of years of astroturfing.
So if applying the law is "crushing a political movement", let's crush it all the way. Nobody is above the law.
I didn't actually take sides or try to justify anything, just pointed out the contrast.
However a coup is a military overthrow of a government. What the Catalonians tried to organise is a vote, not a coup.
Spain just crushed a political movement trying to organise a referendum through force. It arrested the leaders and the rest of the EU is helping them catch the ones that fled. They call it a rebellion and state that Catalonia can never be independent.
Not an Article 7 violation, apparently. According to the EU it's merely an internal matter.
Hungary elects a government by a wide margin, it's a popular government, and the government reflects its people's disagreement with EU policies that aren't in any treaties and weren't in anything Hungary previously agreed to. This is apparently a violation of "rule of law" and "not democracy".
The EU's definition of democracy is anything that helps the EU, simple as that.