The EU Council has three months to decide on the European Commission’s proposal to deprive Hungary of €7.5 billion in EU funding under the cohesion policy.
The European Commission proposed, on Sunday 18 September, to trigger the first stage of the Conditionality Regulation for the protection of the EU budget against Hungary (see EUROPE B13022A23).
The Commission considers that a risk for the budget remains at this stage. It highlighted “irregularities” and “shortcomings” in...