\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to get the EU funds if they want to give it to you, as we could see in the case of Poland, where they could get the funds with a page-and-a-half action plan, which is still not implemented because of legislative difficulty,\u201d B\u00f3ka said. <\/p>\n
Fundamentally, that is why B\u00f3ka said he believed \u201cthe court will not issue any judgment that would put Poland in a difficult position.\u201d<\/p>\n
B\u00f3ka risks leaving office with Orb\u00e1n after the April 12 election, with opposition leader P\u00e9ter Magyar leading in the polls on a platform of unlocking EU funds, tackling corruption, and improving healthcare and education.<\/p>\n
The Commission is, separately, withholding another \u20ac18 billion of Hungarian funds \u2014 \u20ac7.6 billion in cohesion funds and \u20ac10.4 billion from the coronavirus recovery package.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think P\u00e9ter Magyar is right when he says that the Commission wants to give this money to them \u2026 in exchange, like they did in the case of Poland, they want alignment in key policy areas,\u201d he said, \u201clike support for Ukraine, green-lighting progress in Ukraine\u2019s accession process, decoupling from Russian oil and gas, and implementing the Migration Pact.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like in the case of Poland, they might allow rhetorical deviation from the line, but in key areas, they want alignment and compliance.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to get the EU funds if they want to give it to you, as we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1194,2813,2575,30,31,5898,2266,33,5398,2000,804,299,5187,4348,41727,2190,1106,51030,11665,6657,2661,391,11854,7965,770,18241,7338,657,1781],"class_list":["post-834346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-budget","tag-carbon","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-democracy","tag-donald-tusk","tag-education","tag-elections","tag-emissions","tag-eu","tag-eu-affairs","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-healthcare","tag-hungarian-politics","tag-hungary","tag-judiciary","tag-karol-nawrocki","tag-meps","tag-migration","tag-oil","tag-opinion","tag-peter-magyar","tag-platforms","tag-poland","tag-polish-politics","tag-rule-of-law","tag-ukraine","tag-viktor-orban"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116251125755884881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}