Would you look at that, Orban actually likes EU money.
For any country out there that wants or needs something from the EU, just blackmail it with your veto vote.
The EU always budges in the end.
So, for what I was able to understand:
EU will lower the € 7.5 bn locked to “only” 6.3 bn, and will send money for infrastructure projects, but not for anything else, over the 5.8 bn for COVID relief.
EU buckled a little, but Orban is desperate for political money.
How ridiculous to let someone paid nothing to be able to veto! Europeans are really naive.
I don’t understand all the hate the EU is getting for this. The approval for certain key policies come only once (so to speak).
But reasons to freeze Hungarians money come a dime a dozen. The EU actively building the ammunition it has, which is fund freezing, to then release it little by little against Orbam stopping to be an annoyance is a good thing for the EU. Ukraine help or minimum tax – both were things the EU would not have been able to get through without being able to throw Hungary a lifeline.
That same lifeline they can take away each and every year again. It’s not nice but it’s working. All things considered they handled it well given the frameworks of the EU. Whether the framework needs reworking is another thing
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Would you look at that, Orban actually likes EU money.
For any country out there that wants or needs something from the EU, just blackmail it with your veto vote.
The EU always budges in the end.
So, for what I was able to understand:
EU will lower the € 7.5 bn locked to “only” 6.3 bn, and will send money for infrastructure projects, but not for anything else, over the 5.8 bn for COVID relief.
EU buckled a little, but Orban is desperate for political money.
How ridiculous to let someone paid nothing to be able to veto! Europeans are really naive.
I don’t understand all the hate the EU is getting for this. The approval for certain key policies come only once (so to speak).
But reasons to freeze Hungarians money come a dime a dozen. The EU actively building the ammunition it has, which is fund freezing, to then release it little by little against Orbam stopping to be an annoyance is a good thing for the EU. Ukraine help or minimum tax – both were things the EU would not have been able to get through without being able to throw Hungary a lifeline.
That same lifeline they can take away each and every year again. It’s not nice but it’s working. All things considered they handled it well given the frameworks of the EU. Whether the framework needs reworking is another thing