The EU Council could formally adopt, on Thursday 15 December, the hard-fought compromise decision to suspend €6.3 billion of EU cohesion policy funds for Hungary due to the breach of the Rule of law in the country.
A written procedure due to expire on Wednesday evening has been extended until Thursday noon at the request of Poland.
The conditions laid down in Regulation 2020/2092 on a general system of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget are therefore met “with a...