The European Commission would suspend the payment of HUF 3,500 billion in EU funds, according to a letter from Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Budgetary Affairs of the European Commission, addressed to the Hungarian government on July 20, which was posted on Facebook by Jávor Benedek, a politician from Párbeszéd . the HVG , the government had until August 22 to respond to the dialogue in the framework of the rule of law procedure and to the criticisms expressed therein, and in light of this, the committee will decide by September 22 whether to bring the withdrawal of funds to the Council. According to the mechanism, a qualified majority in the Council, which brings together the governments of the member states, is needed to veto the committee's proposal.

Eurologus recently wrote that the European Commission will adopt its position on September 21, which will be sent to the Hungarian government immediately. According to our information, there is no chance that the procedure will be closed by the Brussels board, given that the Hungarian undertakings are not accepted legislation for the time being - and the parliament will not be in session until the mentioned date. In recent days, the government has adopted several government decisions in which, in response to EU criticism, they openly promise to strengthen the anti-corruption institutional system - for example by creating an independent anti-corruption council, but these decisions contain dates later than September 21.

In other words, the procedure will continue and it is expected that sanctions will also be proposed until the laws come into force . And although in principle these are separate processes, as long as the rule of law procedure is ongoing, resources from the EU budget (MFF) and the recovery fund will also be blocked, because EU funding will not be provided to a government where the use of the funds is not transparent. The European Court of Justice therefore arbitrarily withholds payments until a political result that suits it is achieved.

It also says a lot that the European Commission bases its criteria solely on its own perceptions: corruption exists because they think so. The Pesti Srácok wrote more about how Brussels politicians modify the results of public opinion polls on similar issues according to their own interests HERE

Source: PS/HVG

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