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Instead of bringing together all the member states of the European Union, a 750 billion euro fund could be created in cooperation with up to 25 member states, said Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) faction in Parliament. European (PE) on Thursday.
At an online press conference in Berlin, the German politician highlighted: “Everyone should know” that there are no legal or technical obstacles to improving cooperation through that twenty-five Member States created a fund called NextGenerationEU (NGEU) consisting of loans and grants. While this is “politically undesirable”, of course, thinking has started about what can be done if “ideology prevails over realism” at the EU summit, which starts on December 10, and thus the failure of twenty weeks to create the NGEU, ”Manfred Weber said. Yesterday we wrote in detail about how this could be maintained, what would be the build.
On another issue of the meeting of the European Council of Heads of State or Government, the EU budget for the seven-year period beginning in 2021 (MFF), stressed that if Hungary and Poland do not approve the budget due to activities ” Irresponsible “, on 1 January It is not possible to extract all the planned amounts from the cohesion funds, which provide great support to Hungary and Poland.
Risking the adoption of the MFP and NGEU is a “fire game” and
leads to very serious consequences
said a politician from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU).
Regarding the rule of law mechanism challenged by the leaders of Budapest and Warsaw, he said that the “main common goal” is to “depoliticize” legal issues of the rule of law, removing them from partisan political debates. That is why the mechanism has been designed so that the EP has no role to play. “It is not the EPP, the Social Democrats or the Greens that need to have a partisan political debate about whether the rule of law works, the press is free and the judiciary is independent,” said Manfred Weber. He added that “in Germany” no one would think of discussing these issues in the Bundestag (the federal parliament), but everyone would go to Karlsruhe immediately “, to the federal constitutional court.
This solution is also necessary at the EU level; the European Commission should carry out a thorough analysis, the European Council should make a decision and a Member State that is not satisfied with the decision should go to the Court of Justice of the European Communities, explained Manfred Weber.
He is stressed:
This is not about the condemnation of Viktor Orbán, but about the introduction of a neutral rule of law mechanism, and we are not opposed to Hungary or Poland, but to the independence of the judiciary and freedom of the press.
He stressed that in the coming days the debates must continue in this spirit, “not against someone, but for something.” In this context, it was also about
“The next hours and days” are crucial for the Fidesz EPP membership.
(MTI)
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