Today #ECOFIN postponed all four #Hungary related agenda items without decision as #Hungary made it clear that continues rejecting the EUR 18bn aid package to #Ukraine
#ECOFIN asked @EU_Commission to prepare an alternative legal/financial modality not requiring #unanimity
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#ECOFIN asked @EU_Commission to prepare an alternative legal/financial modality not requiring #unanimity
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2/10
Looking for alternative, #intergovernmental borrowing modalities would have been the sober and diligent approach - as many, including the author of this post suggested - couple of month ago.
Looking for alternative, #intergovernmental borrowing modalities would have been the sober and diligent approach - as many, including the author of this post suggested - couple of month ago.
3/10
Asking it now is an emergency measure demonstrating how little understanding Member States have about the challenge posed by #Hungary's #autocratizing regime to the #EU.
Asking it now is an emergency measure demonstrating how little understanding Member States have about the challenge posed by #Hungary's #autocratizing regime to the #EU.
4/10
#ECOFIN asking the @EU_Commission to prepare a new report on the #Potemkin 🇭🇺 #AntiCorruption reform practically in days and instructing the Commission to lower the amount of suspended #CohesionFunds is simply a scandal for 3 good reasons.
#ECOFIN asking the @EU_Commission to prepare a new report on the #Potemkin 🇭🇺 #AntiCorruption reform practically in days and instructing the Commission to lower the amount of suspended #CohesionFunds is simply a scandal for 3 good reasons.
5/10
First, because it violates the independence of @EU_Commission and drags the integrity, legitimacy & professionalism of the Commission and the #ConditionalityMechanism into mud.
First, because it violates the independence of @EU_Commission and drags the integrity, legitimacy & professionalism of the Commission and the #ConditionalityMechanism into mud.
6/10
Second, because adopting reforms which are unable to address the original problems should not be rewarded politically. The #AntiCorruption measures of the #Hungarian government are fake.
Second, because adopting reforms which are unable to address the original problems should not be rewarded politically. The #AntiCorruption measures of the #Hungarian government are fake.
7/10
Read it here why
👉helsinki.hu/en/conditional…
👉verfassungsblog.de/how-not-to-be-…
👉verfassungsblog.de/corrupting-the…
👉verfassungsblog.de/useless-and-ma…
Read it here why
👉helsinki.hu/en/conditional…
👉verfassungsblog.de/how-not-to-be-…
👉verfassungsblog.de/corrupting-the…
👉verfassungsblog.de/useless-and-ma…
8/10
Third, because Member States once again don't have any better idea than kicking the can down the road. They would be ready to reward an #autocratizing regime playing the role of the #Russian's #TrojanHorse in the #EU, just to mitigate immediate blockade threats, ...
Third, because Member States once again don't have any better idea than kicking the can down the road. They would be ready to reward an #autocratizing regime playing the role of the #Russian's #TrojanHorse in the #EU, just to mitigate immediate blockade threats, ...
9/10
...unaware of the fact that they are just creating & encouraging further blockade & veto threats for the future. Meanwhile, they are happy to burn EU taxpayers money in the furnace of strategic corruption in #Orbán's #Hungary.
...unaware of the fact that they are just creating & encouraging further blockade & veto threats for the future. Meanwhile, they are happy to burn EU taxpayers money in the furnace of strategic corruption in #Orbán's #Hungary.
10/10
Speaking of #PolicyLearning, the @EUCouncil is perhaps the most learning resistant organism on this whole planet.
Speaking of #PolicyLearning, the @EUCouncil is perhaps the most learning resistant organism on this whole planet.
@GoodLobbyProfs @eszterz @liliebayer @FrancesDiBi @EuroSandor @eublogo @Judy_Dempsey @JenniferMerode
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