21/02/24 (Agence Europe) – Contrary to what we mistakenly wrote (see EUROPE B13354A2), Poland is not subject to the European budget conditionality mechanism, which has only been triggered against Hungary to date. The Commission has frozen cohesion funds and funds from the European Recovery Plan for Poland because of the risks to the independence of the judiciary in the country in recent years and the state of the Rule of law, fears documented in particular through the so-called...