The lower house of the German parliament has voted in support of cutting “EU payments to Hungary by 7.5 billion euros because of ‘corruption and violations of the rule of law’:”
A resolution was adopted by the parliament in Berlin on Thursday night. It calls on the German government to agree to a funding cut in the European Council if the reforms promised by Hungary are deemed insufficient.
This comes after the Bundestag received a motion from members of the country’s Committee on European Union Affairs that Hungary’s Rule of Law reforms be evaluated.
The members in question belong to the Social Democratic Party, the Greens, and Free Democratic Party.
Their motion proposed that payments be withheld from Hungary if the European Commission determines that the reforms fall short.
