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Hungary and Poland block decision for EU corona aid - serious political crisis in the EU

2020-11-16T19:19:17.310Z


Hungary and Poland are realizing their threats and blocking the EUR 1.8 trillion EU financial package for the coming years. In the middle of the corona pandemic, the European Union is once again in a serious political crisis.


Hungary and Poland are realizing their threats and blocking the EUR 1.8 trillion EU financial package for the coming years.

In the middle of the corona pandemic, the European Union is once again in a serious political crisis.

Brussels - The necessary decision for the billions in

Corona aid from the EU

is blocked.

In protest against a new procedure for punishing violations of the

rule of law

,

Hungary and Poland prevented

the political

decision-making process from

continuing as planned

on Monday

, as several diplomats from the

German Press Agency

confirmed.

In

addition to the planned Corona reconstruction aid of up to 750 billion euros, the long-term EU budget is also

affected by the

veto

.

For the next seven years it comprises funds amounting to almost 1.1 billion euros and finances, for example, grants for

agriculture

and

research programs

.

EU budget: renewed political crisis in the European Union

The EU is

once again in a serious political crisis in the

midst of the

Corona

crisis.

According to diplomats, Chancellor

Angela Merkel *

, EU Council President

Charles Michel

and EU Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen

will now

have to discuss how to proceed.

The dispute will then probably become the subject of a video conference of the

heads of state and government

planned for Thursday

.

For her, it should actually be about better cooperation against the

corona pandemic

.

If the financial package cannot be launched, the EU will only have an

emergency budget

from next year

.

In addition, the corona aid could not flow, which is supposed to save countries like Italy and Spain from an economic crash.

EU budget: Hungary and Poland criticize procedures to protect the rule of law

The disbursement of the first funds should actually be made possible in the course of the second quarter of 2021.

In addition to the resolutions blocked on Monday, an elaborate

ratification process is also

necessary.

According to information from the

EU Commission

, the national parliaments in almost all EU countries must also be concerned with the issue.

The process of

protecting the

rule of law

criticized by Hungary and Poland

provides for the reduction of EU funds in the future in the event of certain violations of fundamental EU values.

The instrument should only be able to be used if there is a threat of misuse of EU funds.

However, this could already be the case if a lack of

independence from the courts

raises justified concerns that decisions on the distribution of EU funds can no longer be independently controlled.

The governments in

Hungary

and

Poland

in

particular

have been repeatedly accused of expanding their influence on the judiciary.

(dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network.

Source: merkur

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