Warsaw and Budapest are deprived of the Brussels stimulus funds for violation of the rule of law.
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On the eve of the summit between the European Union (EU) and the African Union, scheduled for Thursday, 17 and Friday, February 18, Warsaw threatens not to associate with the conclusions that will be published in the wake of the meeting. In doing so, the Morawiecki Mateusz government sends a clear message to its partners: as long as Poland is deprived of the funds of the European stimulus plan to which it can claim (23.9 billion euros of subsidies and 12.1 billion. euros of loans), it will not show cooperative.
“By the beginning of the summit, Poland can still change your mind. But if it does not do it, too bad. We can always write in the conclusions that a Member State, for reasons that Are not related to the substance of the text, does not associate with it, “relativises a diplomat. In this case, it is a political declaration, not a legislative act, and Polish reluctance are, for the time being, that a demonstration of a bad mood.
Certainly. But it’s been several months since Warsaw threatens to block community institutions by obstructing. Most often, Budapest, which has also not affected the first of the 7.2 billion euros of subsidies that the Commission has made its disposal to deal with the crisis due to CVIV-19, is also of the Part.
In December 2021, the two countries indicated that the Commission Directive for a minimum taxation of large firms did not suit them, while they had signed the agreement concluded within the organization of Cooperation and economic development including this bill stems. On March 15, the date on which the Ministers of European Finance must meet on the subject, “we can measure their determination”, launches a diplomat.
“We can make the debates more complicated”
Another example, at the European Council of December 16, 2021, Warsaw and Budapest are mounted in the niche on the topics related to the rise in energy prices and the ecological transition, while the twenty-seven seek to reach The carbon neutrality in 2050. Faced with their joint offensive and in order to avoid a blockage, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, finally decided not to evoke these subjects in the conclusions published at the end of the summit.
“Poland and Hungary tell their counterparts:” We are members of the Council, we can make the debates more complicated “”, entrusts a diplomat. They hope to influence the Commission’s position that requires them – in vain for the moment – reforms to advance the rule of law, prerequisite for any payment within the framework of the European recovery plan. In Budapest, Brussels asks to fight against corruption, which has become endemic and in Warsaw to ensure the independence of a court today at the pay of power.
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