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The European Parliament is not interested in Orbán’s veto, it will not allow the rule of law. This was revealed after EP President David Sassoli held talks with leaders of parliamentary groups on Wednesday. The participants issued a joint statement in which they expressed their position on the European Union budget, the coronavirus recovery fund and the rule of law embedded in the system, and called on the European Council to adopt it.
The European Union is still indebted to the universally accepted definition of the rule of law.
The announcement is preceded by the fact that Hungary and Poland have vetoed the adoption of the European Union’s € 1.18 billion budget for the next seven years, along with a € 750 billion economic rescue package for the epidemic. of coronavirus.
There is no agreement on anything while there is no agreement on everything
– Viktor Orbán declared in his letter, as the reason why he decided to veto.
The two countries have vetoed because they would make payments conditional on the rule of law starting next year. Violation of these means having the political leadership of a certain EU member state
- endangers the independence of the judiciary,
- does not ensure conflicts of interest,
- it does not sanction illegal decisions by public authorities, including law enforcement agencies.
Budapest and Warsaw are also pushing for these conditions to be met, Judit Varga, for example, applying the European Union’s double standards to Hungary. However, the European Parliament will not allow the new budget to start without the mechanism. In light of this, prevention of money distribution can also be evaluated in such a way that if it is not good for us, it should not be good for anyone else.
However, your serious competitors are stuttering, delay, and deception. And the political discourse.
Of course, the Eurocrats in Brussels did not fall headlong either, and how they could cut the two resisters is already shaping up. Accordingly, they would separate the approval of the budget from the adoption of the rule of law mechanism, so that the latter could be voted on without us. Legislation on the latter can be decided by the plenary of the European Parliament as of next week, and there is a qualified majority, which is fluid even without the two dissident countries. If this happens and the cards are dealt without us, Hungary could lose a lot:
- 6,257 million euros for the rehabilitation and resilience building Of an instrument that the largest endowment for the economic recovery fund,
- EUR 834 million from the REACT EU fund, which mainly supports job creation,
- 237 million euros from the Fair Transition Mechanism, which will help combat climate change.
Obviously, the Orbán government does not want to lose these amounts either, so political analysts hope that the Hungarian and Polish leaders will be forced to change their position.
If I don’t, and there is no new budget for it, the European Union will continue to operate on the basis of this year’s payments, extending the financial cycle that expires at the end of the year. In other words, as many payments have been received this year for cohesion, agricultural aid, etc., the same amount would arrive next year without a new budget. But, and here the dog is buried, it could even take that money from the reluctant governments that vetoed the budget and the stimulus package. Obviously, such political revenge would not have occurred in spite of the majority of the member states, as they are all angry about the delay caused by the Hungarian and Polish vetoes.
On Thursday, the heads of state and government of the EU will be able to continue convincing each other in a video conference.
The parties did not limit themselves to evaluating today’s measure.
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