On Monday 28 September, the German EU Council Presidency presented a proposal for “rules necessary to protect the EU budget in the event of breaches of the principles of the Rule of law in the Member States”.
This text (a regulation) thus establishes a “general cross-compliance regime for the protection of the EU budget”, with measures in the form of suspension of funds disbursement from the EU budget or the post-Covid-19 EU Economic Recovery Plan.
The proposal remains faithful to...