07/12/2021 (Agence Europe) – The vice-president of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, acknowledged on Tuesday 7 December that it is “unlikely” that the Hungarian and Polish recovery plans will be approved before the end of 2021. In his view, it is important to focus on “the substance”: Warsaw’s commitment to bring its judicial system in line with the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union and Budapest’s commitment to put in place robust anti-corruption and transparency systems in the use and destination of EU financial assistance, as required by the European Commission’s specific socioeconomic policy recommendations to them from 2019. As a result, unless their recovery plans are approved before the end of the year, these two countries will not benefit from 13% pre-financing. (MB)