EU leaders fail to solve political fight blocking big budget
The European Union still hasn't completely sorted out its messy post-divorce relationship with Britain but it has already been plunged into another major crisis. The deal for the budget and recovery fund looked well on track to enter into force in January — until Hungary and Poland vetoed it this week. The Polish parliament passed a resolution Thursday backing the government’s plan to veto the EU budget if it included the rule-of-law condition. The EU has opened legal procedures against the two countries over what it considers systemic threats to the rule of law. He added that many member countries were not prepared to compromise.
EU hit by new crisis, this time over money and values
The European Union still hasn't completely sorted out its messy post-divorce relationship with Britain but it has already been plunged into another major crisis. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)BUDAPEST – The European Union still hasn't completely sorted out its messy post-divorce relationship with Britain — but it has already been plunged into another major crisis. Tomas Valasek, the chairman of the European affairs committee in Slovakia's parliament, called Orban's argument “nonsense,” noting that the EU budget says nothing about migration. In 2018, the EU agency that investigates how the bloc’s money is spent carried out more investigations in Hungary than in any other EU country. “You are waging a war against two of your allies, the Hungarian local governments and the European Union," the mayor wrote.