The dispute between EU states and wayward Hungary over the latter’s failure to defend the rule of law and protect EU funding from misappropriation has finally come to a head. On Wednesday the European Commission proposed to put on hold EU payments to Hungary worth up to €13.3 billion in Covid recovery and cohesion funding, pending the implementation by Budapest of legal and financial reforms that Brussels deems necessary to bring the country into conformity with EU standards.
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