Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control overwhelmingly welcomed, in the evening of Monday 3 October, the proposal to impose financial penalties on Hungary under the ‘Rule of law’ regulation.
Budapest has presented 17 measures to avoid the proposal submitted to the EU Council aimed at depriving the country of €7.5 billion of EU funding under the cohesion policy (see EUROPE B13024A9).
The members of the committees stressed the heavy “responsibility” on...