The standoff between the institutions of the European Union, on the one hand, and Poland and Hungary, on the other, risked derailing the 750 billion euro recovery plan, torn from the "ants" of Union by the Macron-Merkel duo.
The two Central European States had vetoed a conditionality clause, subjecting the payment of European funds to respect for the rule of law.
She was obviously targeting them.
The German Chancellor settled the affair with one of the convoluted compromises of which she has the secret: the two parties each have their reasons for claiming to have won.
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Because the text on respect for the rule of law is not repealed, but a complementary declaration has been added to it.
It promises the organization of a fair adversarial procedure, limiting the powers of the Commission.
And the launch of a procedure is postponed for two years.
The time for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban "to organize" the elections to be held in
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