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Hungary has informed the other Member States of the European Union that it will block the approval of the Community’s multi-annual budget and the Economic Recovery Fund due to the rule of law mechanism.
The German Presidency of the Council of the EU has just reached an agreement with the European Parliament on the EU budget for 2021-2027. But to enter into force, the draft multi-year budget of 1,074,300 million euros and the relaunch fund of 750,000 million euros must be formally approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. The vote in the EU Council is unanimous, so only one member state can block the adoption of the decision, writes mediafax.ro.
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According to EU sources cited by the DPA agency, the permanent representative of Hungary in the EU Council has indicated that it cannot vote on the EU budget, due to the introduction of the mechanism to condition access to European funds on the rule of law.
Gergely Gulyás, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, confirmed the initiative. The rule of law project is unacceptable and, if upheld, will block the EU budget, Gergely Gulyás said, according to Portfolio.hu.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned last week in a letter to European Union leaders that he would block approval of the multi-year budget bill if the rule of law clause were introduced. “Although Hungary feels obliged to cooperate in the context of new developments, we may not guarantee the unanimity necessary for the formal approval of the draft budget decided in July,” Viktor Orban said in a letter. Viktor Orban considers that the rule of law mechanism contains “unclear definitions of infringements”, so that “political abuses may occur”.
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The German Presidency of the Council of the European Union has reached an agreement with the negotiators of the European Parliament on a mechanism to condition access to Community funds on compliance with the rule of law, a system that could operate by qualified majority. The interim agreement was reached on the basis of the recommendations made at the July European Council summit and must be formally approved by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament. According to EU officials quoted by the German publication Der Spiegel, the European Commission will make official proposals to sanction a state that does not comply with the rule of law. The sanction decision will be made by the EU Council by qualified majority: the votes of 15 EU states, representing 65% of the EU population (a procedure also called the “double majority” rule).
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For his part, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced that he does not intend to accept the EU rule of law mechanism.
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