According to Katarina Barley, the situation is particularly serious in Hungary and Poland, and violations of the rule of law are systematic.

Financial assistance from the European Union (EU) is an effective means of ensuring respect for the rule of law, which is why member states such as Poland and Hungary should be “deprived of economic resources,” a vice-president of the European Parliament told Wednesday. German public service radio Deutschlandfunk.

Katarina Barley stressed that the situation in these two Member States was particularly serious, with breaches of the rule of law that were not limited to individual and isolated cases, but rather systematic.

According to a summary by the news portal Deutschlandfunk, a politician from the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), a former federal minister of Justice of the German federal government, has confirmed statements by the four largest factions of the EP to block the approval of the EU budget for 2021 if there will be no agreement on clear sanctions for infractions of the rule of law.

“If we give up now, there will be conditions in Europe for seven years that we don’t want, that have nothing to do with the values ​​of the EU,” said Katarina Barley.

The EP vice-president rejected the German compromise proposal on a mechanism to guarantee the rule of law, presented by the Federal Government as president-in-office of the Council of the EU, an EU institution that brings together the governments of the member states. As he said, the current Presidency foresees that an infringement of the rule of law would only be sanctioned if the infringement affects EU subsidies, “slowly weakening the mechanism completely”.



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