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L ‘Hungary and the Poland, after the protests of the premier Viktor Orban me Mateusz Morawiecki against the new clause on conditionality linked to respect for the rule of law, resort to veto power and block agreement on other European budget. What is a crucial step in the procedure to reach the scrutiny of national parliaments as soon as possible and give the final green light to the budget and the Recovery Fund for the recovery from the crisis caused by Covid. The niet arrived from the ambassadors of the two countries of the Visegrad bloc during the meeting of Coreper, which brings together the 27 representatives of the Member States. The decision on own resources, which must be approved by the States before being ratified by the national budgetary authorities and entering into force (it is the legal basis to establish the guarantee for the financing of the Recovery Plan), explains the spokesman for the German Presidency of the Council of the EU.
The entry into force of the Budget and Recovery, explain EU sources, at this time could be completely blocked or delayed. While a reopening of the talks with the European Parliament on the rule of law. Now, the issue should be discussed by the heads of state and government, in all probability, in the videoconference of November 19, that should have been dedicated to the pandemic.
According to the spokesman for the German presidency on Twitter, Sebastian Fischer, “The two member states expressed their opposition to one element of the package (lconditionality on the rule of law, in fact) but not on the substance of the budget agreement. “But Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs on social media writes:” We cannot support the plan in its current form, which links the criteria of the rule of law with decisions on the budget. Goes against the conclusions of the July European Council“The clause provides for the possibility of blocking the disbursement of European resources to countries, such as Hungary and Poland, found guilty of violations of fundamental principles such as the separation of powers and freedom of expression and information.
Letters of protest to the Commission – In recent days Orban and Morawiecki had written to European Comission, expressing disappointment and threatening to veto. Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said the letters “are still on the table and a response will be sent at the appropriate time” and that the community executive’s goal remains for Budget and Recovery to also go into effect early in the year. . if he admitted: “The situation is fluid.” Orban, criticized for stigmatizing non-governmental organizations that promote civil liberties and for allegedly misusing EU funds for the benefit of his political allies, said in a radio interview that the rule of law conditions resembled those of “blackmail ideological ”practiced by the Soviet Union and“ if they really approve this regulation we will have created a Soviet Union outside the European Union ”. Zbigniew Ziobro, the Polish justice minister, described the rule of law mechanism as an attempt by the German presidency to control Poland, an accusation that appears to be aimed at compatriots who remember the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
The reactions. Amendola: “Outdated and harmful veto power.” M5: “Friends of Salvini and anti-Italian melons” – “Denying all of Europe the financing of the crisis in the worst crisis in decades is irresponsible”, comments on Twitter the president of the EPP group in the European Parliament Manfred weber. “Viktor Orban and Jaroslaw Kaczynski (Polish Deputy Prime Minister ed) they want to stop using these funds for everyone, so they will have to explain it to the millions of workers and businessmen, to mayors and students, to researchers and farmers who have the support of these funds ”. “The veto power is obsolete for the EU and harmful for those who exercise it. Either a united Europe acts as a superpower of rights and values, or individual states will lose in global competition. We support German mediation, time cannot be wasted on NextGenerationEu and MFF (budget) “, writes the Minister for European Affairs in a tweet. Enzo Amendola. By Tiziana Beghin, head of delegation of the 5 Star Movement in the European Parliament, “the polestars of world sovereignty, the governments of Poland and Hungary, have blocked the approval of the Recovery Fund in the Council. Once again the European friends of Salvini and Meloni demonstrate their true political nature: they are anti-Italian and anti-European. Instead of thinking about the common good, Orban and company only care about their own garden, but the European Union will not give up in defending the rule of law ”.
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