Poland In Line for €55 Billion EU Funds After Europhile Victory
Donald Tusk has said that unlocking the funds will be his top priority if he takes power.
Donald Tusk has said that unlocking the funds will be his top priority if he takes power.
Reforms proposed by France and Germany are unsettling conservative governments in the EU.
Set to get some of the largest dole-outs, Spain is also one of the most opaque in accounting for how funds are spent.
The European Commission has financed left-liberal groups in Hungary while withholding recovery funds from the country.
Most EU members demand more clarification, increased defense funds, or settling old scores before granting the Commission’s request for extra contributions, while the most frugal ones simply reject the idea altogether.
Italy faces delays in obtaining and absorbing Recovery and Resilience funding.
EU funds must be disbursed without political bias, the delegation stressed, but as Minister Navracsics noted, the MEPs themselves were prone to partiality, inevitable since they hadn’t read the document’s contents.
Boïko Borissov, the winner of the fifth Bulgarian election in two years, turned to an unusual candidate for prime minister in an attempt to finally form a functioning government.
All leftist parliamentary groups joined the effort to keep Hungary grounded, signed just a day before Budapest announced a major breakthrough in the negotiations with Brussels on the release of the frozen funds.
Not getting the answers it needed in Brussels, the Budgetary Control Committee went to Spain to dig up the data on the Next Generation funds.