
Tusk Halts EU Recovery Payments Amid Misuse Claims
Recovery funds are under scrutiny after being spent on yachts, saunas, and projects unrelated to the pandemic.

Recovery funds are under scrutiny after being spent on yachts, saunas, and projects unrelated to the pandemic.

The unblocking of funds for Poland, celebrated as a political triumph by Tusk’s government, is now tainted by accusations of improper spending.
The funds were tied to unclear milestones and could be easily used for political blackmail, the court said.

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.