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According to the news agency, the head of foreign affairs holding the German rotating presidency said:
We are in the final phase of the negotiations, which are not easy, we all know that. But I am absolutely sure that we will also be able to make decisions in the coming days about the EU budget and the recovery fund, and thus we will be able to disburse the money
(for farms affected by the epidemic – ed.)
All of this suggests that there will be no lengthy agreement, not even weeks, to persuade the Hungarian and Polish governments, which are vetoing the political rule due to the strict rule of law, to find a solution that is acceptable to all partners involved and thus pave the way for In Council for a formal vote on the EU budget for 2021-2027 and the own resources decision on the recovery fund in a few days (as well as for the vote on the rule of law mechanism) .
The quick fix is good news, but not surprisingly, the top politicians in the European People’s Party at the end of the week, including faction leader Mandfred Weber, have already indicated: they will support a solution that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has already requested in writing in a letter that would allow EU-funded sanctions for rule of law issues to be challenged in the European Court of Justice.
This would mean that the European Commission could start applying the sanctions mechanism next year and then, following the mechanism relatively quickly, the Council could vote on sanctions against individual Member States during the summer and then challenge them before the Court of Justice of the European Union. As we pointed out in our article explaining the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel last Thursday: the big question is whether or not the Court would suspend the sanction in question if such a lawsuit were initiated, this would be the Court’s own decision and in a circle narrow (in the case of a presumption of irreversible damage) at the request of the plaintiff. This would mean that an EU-funded sanction imposed on a particular Member State would be enforced and it would be decided later, in one or two years, whether the Court considers the sanction imposed to be legal or not.
More details coming soon.
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