In fact, EU finance ministers should have discussed the European Commission’s latest recommendation on Tuesday to suspend EU funds for Hungary over deficiencies in the rule of law. However, due to the hardened fronts between Budapest and Brussels, this agenda item was immediately scrapped.
Financial aid to Ukraine of 18 billion euros or a global minimum tax are no longer under discussion on Tuesday. Because Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government had indicated in advance that it would not agree to either package. The Czech presidency has now called on the EU commission to “carry out an updated assessment of Hungary’s rule of law reforms in the coming days,” according to Austria’s finance ministry.
Edtstadler has “full confidence in the European Commission”
The EU Council, made up of representatives of the 27 Member States, must decide on the European Commission’s proposal to Hungary–Gelders touch. If the Council does not do this, the European Commission’s proposal will be rejected and so on Gelders could flow freely to Budapest. The Scandinavian countries, the Benelux countries, but also France and Germany would be particularly keen on the consequences for Hungary urge, it was said. For Austria, European Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) has made it clear that she “has full confidence in the Commission”.
The EU authority in Brussels required Hungary a total of 27 “super-milestones”, measures against corruption and strengthening the independence of the judiciary, including changes to the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court to limit political interference. Despite some of Hungary The measures taken still pose a risk to the EU budget, the EU Commission justified the suspension of theGelders.
Orban calls for dialogue at the highest EU level
According to Council circles, Hungary has criticized the proportionality of the proposal by EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn. Budapest also calls for further dialogue at the highest level. Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants to settle the dispute over his billion-dollar aid at the EU summit of 15/16. Will raise the issue in Brussels in December, diplomats say. EU law even allows Orban to do this: a so-called “emergency brake” makes it possible to address issues in the ongoing “conditionality procedure”.
Source: Krone
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