MEPs urge the Commission to consider freezing EU funds, escalating pressure on Robert Fico’s government despite warnings it could hit ordinary Slovaks.
The defence loan plan becomes another extra-treaty instrument of influence, using debt and budgetary leverage to shape national policy, Polish legal analysts say.
Former Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, who played a central role in politically motivated infringement proceedings against the conservative governments of Poland and Hungary, is now accused of having concealed hundreds of thousands of euros that he may have illegally obtained.
