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According to Reuters, this clearly responded to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s statement last week (in an interview with Die Zeit) that in the summer they remained in a different mechanism to protect the EU budget at the EU summit and more. late, At the behest of the European Parliament, the German Presidency has deviated from this, that is, it has allowed itself to be diverted and therefore the process is ultimately contrary to the EU Treaty.
According to an interview published in a German newspaper, Viktor Orbán said these literally:
“The July decision was on the creation of rules to protect the financial interests of the EU. Period. The issue of the rule of law mechanism should be clarified at the highest level of the Council, and we must urgently discuss it there. For me, these are two separate things that are not related. Subsequently, Parliament tried to link this to each other and threatened to block the budget and the Crown grant if they were not linked to a new still undefined rule of law mechanism, but there were no objective criteria Scientific, universal and verifiable for this. As we understand it, the German Presidency has decided to deviate from the July European Council decision, taking into account the subsequent request of the European Parliament. “
Angela Merkel would have said this literally on Monday:
I would like to make it clear that the idea of linking the budget to conditionality through the back door is not true.
The Chancellor reportedly stressed that This has always been the goal, so they didn’t deviate from the summer deal along the way, but stayed with it even then.
This is by far the most definitive refutation of the Hungarian and Polish government’s argument that
that this was not the case with the summer agreement and that since then, with the help of the German Presidency, 25 Member States, the European Commission and the European Parliament are finally deliberately violating the EU Treaty by establishing a parallel mechanism to the Article 7 rule of law, but they did not authorize it.
Regarding the argument, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that if the two member states really disputed the compatibility of the summer agreement and the rule of law mechanism derived from it with the Treaty of the EU, they would challenge it before the Court of Justice of the European Union. . As the Polish Justice Minister revealed last week, the two countries do not want to go down this path because they can only go to court after the rule of law has come into force, and if it comes into force in January, there is a danger of make it stop soon. all payments to the two Member States and that is exactly what I want to avoid. To do this (to prevent it from entering into force), the two Member States are using their veto on the two EU budgets, which require unanimity.
However, it is possible that something new has been done in the case now, because Viktor Orbán is flying to Warsaw tonight, to discuss the joint strategy with his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawieczki. Today, by the way, Merkel also said that they have not yet managed to resolve the difficult situation, but she is confident that she will, and warned of an all-important EU summit, where big decisions will have to be made:
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