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E.U. proposes suspending $7.5B in funding for Orban’s Hungary over corruption: The European Commission's first-of-its kind move could deepen the stand-off ...
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E.U. proposes suspending $7.5B in funding for Orban’s Hungary over ...
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EU Squeezes Hungary Funding While Seeking Its Backing Against Russia: Commission proposes freezing $7.5 billion in payments, deepening a conflict between ...
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EU Squeezes Hungary Funding While Seeking Its Backing Against Russia
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E.U. proposes suspending $7.5B in funding for Orban’s Hungary over corruption: The European Commission's first-of-its kind move could deepen the stand-off ...
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E.U. proposes suspending $7.5B in funding for Orban’s Hungary over ...
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EU Squeezes Hungary Funding While Seeking Its Backing Against Russia: Commission proposes freezing $7.5 billion in payments, deepening a conflict between ...
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EU Squeezes Hungary Funding While Seeking Its Backing Against Russia
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Looming cuts in funds: EU Parliament denies Hungary status as a real democracy: Hungary is threatened with billions in cuts in EU funds due to corruption ...
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Looming cuts in funds: EU Parliament denies Hungary status as a real ...
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EU moves to cut $7.5bn funding for Hungary over corruption: The 27-nation bloc has three months to decide on suspension of funding for Hungary over charges of ...
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EU moves to cut $7.5bn funding for Hungary over corruption
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Brussels calls for €7.5B of EU funds to be cut from Hungary: The Commission stressed that this is the next step in its rule of law mechanism process.
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Brussels calls for €7.5B of EU funds to be cut from Hungary
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Viktor Orbán: Uphold Non-Acceptance: Viktor Orbán thwarts freedom of the press, serves Putin, lets EU funds seep away - why this is irrelevant for many ...
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Viktor Orbán: Uphold Non-Acceptance
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EU Commission moves to ban Hungary's access to funds over corruption allegations: The European Union's executive branch has proposed suspending €7 ...
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EU Commission moves to ban Hungary's access to funds over corruption ...
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Dispute over EU funding freeze: Poland's prime minister defends Orban's will to reform.
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Dispute over EU funding freeze: Poland's prime minister defends Orban's ...
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EU budget: How Hungary can still avert the sanctions: The EU Commission proposes to freeze billions in payments to Budapest - and at the same time shows Viktor ...
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EU budget: How Hungary can still avert the sanctions
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Europe Hungary and the rule of law: now there is a risk of losing EU billions - Tageblatt.lu
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European Union moves to cut funding to Hungary for undermining democracy: The EU says Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been undermining democracy as ...
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European Union moves to cut funding to Hungary for undermining democracy
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EU sanctions: Budapest expresses emphatic confidence: The Hungarian government is confident that EU financial sanctions can be avoided. On Monday ...
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EU sanctions: Budapest expresses emphatic confidence
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Explained | Why has the European Parliament called Hungary a hybrid ‘electoral autocracy’?
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EU Commission: Why the EU will continue to transfer billions to Hungary despite criticism | Augsburger Allgemeine
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EU Commission proposes freezing 65% of funds to Hungary: The freezing, the first time in the EU's history using the conditionality mechanism linking EU ...
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EU Commission proposes freezing 65% of funds to Hungary
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Hungary at risk of losing EU billions: The EU Parliament no longer even considers Orban's Hungary to be a full-fledged democracy. And the EU Commission also sees ...
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Hungary at risk of losing EU billions
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Orbán faces danger from new enemy brandishing a leaked tape: Péter Magyar, ex-husband of former Justice Minister Judit Varga, has released a recording alleging ...
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Orbán faces danger from new enemy brandishing a leaked tape
Quick Glance: Hungary’s Government Faces Pressure from Corruption and Bolsonaro Allegations
  • Peter Magyar hands over a secretly recorded tape of his ex-wife, former justice minister Judit Varga, admitting government members tampered with evidence in a corruption case.

  • Magyar, ex-husband of former justice minister Judit Varga, launches a movement aiming to become a political party in Budapest, Hungary.

  • Magyar becomes a significant government critic, particularly targeting Orban’s close aide Antal Rogan, following the resignations of his ex-wife and the then-president due to their involvement in a controversial pardon case at a children’s home in Budapest.

  • Magyar shared the latest corruption evidence on Facebook and also provided it to prosecutors, originating from a recorded conversation at home with his ex-wife Judit Varga in January 2023 when she was serving as the justice minister.
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Brussels-Berlin night train also stopping in Dresden and Prague from Monday: As part of the extended journey, the train will include 17 stops ...
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Strack-Zimmermann on von der Leyen, Orbán and the far right: What does Strack-Zimmermann, top Liberal candidate, think about Ursula von der Leyen ...
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Strack-Zimmermann on von der Leyen, Orbán and the far right
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Joint arms procurement: EU armaments with side effects: The EU Commission wants to ensure that the arms markets in the EU are less fragmented and that more ...
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Joint arms procurement: EU armaments with side effects
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Slovakia, the EU’s next rule of law headache: Prime Minister Robert Fico’s first steps since returning to power have set off familiar alarm bells in Brussels.
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Slovakia, the EU’s next rule of law headache
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Orbán congratulates Putin on his rigged election win: Hungarian leader hails “cooperation” and “mutual respect” with Russia despite “very complicated” ...
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Orbán congratulates Putin on his rigged election win
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EU asks Big Tech to mitigate risks to election integrity: The European Commission has called on X, TikTok, Facebook and other online platforms to mitigate risks ...
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EU asks Big Tech to mitigate risks to election integrity
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Summer time at Easter: Why the time change was not abolished: At Easter, the children will look tired while hunting for eggs: they, like everyone else ...
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Summer time at Easter: Why the time change was not abolished
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Violent farmers' protests in Brussels - Police intervene: In the Belgian capital Brussels, farmers are protesting against EU regulations. Violent escalations ...
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Violent farmers' protests in Brussels - Police intervene
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Four killed, several injured as race car hits spectators at Hungary rally: Four people got killed and at least 8 were injured when a race car drifted off-road ...
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Four killed, several injured as race car hits spectators at Hungary rally
Quick Glance: Hungary: Fatal Consequences of Rally Spectator Accident
  • During a Hungarian motorsport rally on Sunday afternoon, a driver veered off track and collided with a group of spectators, resulting in four fatalities and at least seven injuries, as confirmed by authorities.

  • Event organizers, the Arrabona Rally Club, took immediate action by halting the race and dispatching eight ambulances and four rescue helicopters to aid the injured.

  • Local police mentioned the uncertainty surrounding the reasons for the vehicle, participating in the two-day Esztergom Nyerges Rally, deviating from the route between the towns of Labatlan and Bajot, located north of Budapest near the Slovakian border.

  • An ongoing investigation was announced to clarify the 'circumstances.'
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Brussels proposes high EU tariffs on Russian grain: The European Commission has proposed a drastic increase in tariffs on Russian grain entering the EU's single ...
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Brussels proposes high EU tariffs on Russian grain
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EU environmental rules: Farmers unload their anger - and manure - in Brussels: Burning tires and dumped horse manure: Farmers have given free rein to their anger ...
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EU environmental rules: Farmers unload their anger - and manure - in ...
Quick Glance: Path to EU Membership for Ukraine and Moldova
  • The European Commission presented the negotiation framework for Ukraine and Moldova, awaiting approval from EU member states.

  • EU enlargement is viewed as a lengthy process that must consider the Union's capacity to absorb new members.

  • The Commission has outlined ideas for EU reform to accommodate additional members, focusing on the issue of unanimity in decision-making.

  • Discussions on EU enlargement and governance reveal that reforms and admitting new countries into the EU pose a complex and challenging task.
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Von der Leyen asks Finland to prepare the EU for war: Defense preparedness will be a main topic at the EU leaders’ summit.
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Von der Leyen asks Finland to prepare the EU for war
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EU relaxes requirements for farmers: Fewer obligations, more leeway: EU agriculture ministers have decided to make things easier for farmers at a meeting in ...
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EU relaxes requirements for farmers
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Polish e-commerce giant Allegro expands brand to Slovakia: Allegro also plans to launch own-brand platforms in Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.
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Polish e-commerce giant Allegro expands brand to Slovakia
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Hungary: Spar Austria defends itself against Orban's special tax: Hungary imposes special taxes on foreign retailers to force them out of the country ...
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Hungary: Spar Austria defends itself against Orban's special tax
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EU floats radical change to how it funds poorer members: The €392 billion cohesion fund could be transformed into a money-for-reforms model.
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EU floats radical change to how it funds poorer members
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Brussels-Berlin night train also stopping in Dresden and Prague from Monday: As part of the extended journey, the train will include 17 stops ...
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EU states impose sanctions over Navalny's death: The death of Alexei Navalny caused horror around the world. One day after the presidential election in Russia ...
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EU states impose sanctions over Navalny's death
Quick Glance: EU Imposes Sanctions Following Nawalny's Death
  • The EU enforces sanctions against Russia in response to Nawalny's death during the presidential election.

  • The EU blames Putin and Russian authorities for Nawalny's death, calling for consequences. Nawalny's widow believes he was murdered in the camp.

  • EU foreign ministers plan to issue a statement on Putin's controversial election victory and impose sanctions on double-digit justice representatives.

  • Existing economic sanctions against Russia due to the Ukraine conflict, as well as new sanctions on the second anniversary of the conflict, are already in place.
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Attack in Moscow - More radical than the Islamic State - Europe also in sight: The “Khorasan” group of the Islamic State is said to have carried out the attack ...
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Attack in Moscow - More radical than the Islamic State - Europe also in ...
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EU Commission plans uniform university degrees: More exchange, comparable degrees: This is what the EU Commission is hoping for from the European university ...
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EU Commission plans uniform university degrees
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LIVE NOW! Media Partnership - Securing the future of European industries: Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies are crucial for Europe to ...
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LIVE NOW! Media Partnership - Securing the future of European industries
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Ilaria Salis was “treated like a dog” by the Hungarian court: The Italian anti-fascist Ilaria Salis has been in custody in Budapest for 13 months because she is ...
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Ilaria Salis was “treated like a dog” by the Hungarian court
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Moscow attack: How Putin could use the concert hall massacre to his advantage: From murky apartment bombings to the Beslan school siege, Russia’s leader never ...
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Moscow attack: How Putin could use the concert hall massacre to his ...
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Europeans Tired of Time Change: Will 2024 Bring Relief?: Europeans, including Poles, express fatigue over biannual time changes. Will 2024 mark a shift in this ...
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Europeans Tired of Time Change: Will 2024 Bring Relief?
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No, Ursula von der Leyen’s grandfather was not an SS general: The Cube takes a look at claims the European Commission president's grandparents were Nazis ...
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No, Ursula von der Leyen’s grandfather was not an SS general
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Reactions to the "election" in Russia: criticism from the EU, congratulations from the autocrats
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Quick Glance: Putin revels in electoral victory amidst quiet protests
  • Putin secures fifth term easily after suppressing opposition.

  • Voters had virtually no choice in the election.

  • Critics view the results as predetermined, Putin sees them as trust.

  • Protests by the opposition, both in Russia and globally, are downplayed by Putin.
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Europe's far-right vows hard line on immigration, but cracks emerge elsewhere: European far-right parties met in Italy on Saturday vowing to curb immigration to ...
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Europe's far-right vows hard line on immigration, but cracks emerge ...
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EU Commission to sign partnership with Australia on critical raw materials: The European Commission will sign a strategic partnership with Australia on critical ...
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EU Commission to sign partnership with Australia on critical raw materials
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EU commisisoner Šuica sounds alarm on demographic shift: The EU will have to step up its efforts to tackle looming demographic challenges over the next five ...
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EU commisisoner Šuica sounds alarm on demographic shift
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Pro-EU Korčok scores surprise victory in first round of Slovak election: A pro-EU former Slovak foreign minister scored a surprise victory in the first round of ...
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Pro-EU Korčok scores surprise victory in first round of Slovak election
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EC adopts document on pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews: The European Commission (EC) on March 21 adopted a Communication on pre-enlargement reforms and ...
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EC adopts document on pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews
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Von der Leyen dilutes plan to use Russian assets to buy Ukraine arms: The compromise is designed to placate governments that oppose using all the money to buy ...
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Von der Leyen dilutes plan to use Russian assets to buy Ukraine arms
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What fascinates Trump so much about Orbán?: Trump's biggest fan in Europe is the Hungarian head of government. This is bad news for Ukraine.
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What fascinates Trump so much about Orbán?
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EU leaders set to open door for Bosnia’s accession: The European Commission last week gave a positive recommendation to start formal accession negotiations ...
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EU leaders set to open door for Bosnia’s accession
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EU could spend $3 billion a year arming Ukraine by tapping frozen Russian assets: European Union leaders are considering a proposal to use about $3 billion a ...
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EU could spend $3 billion a year arming Ukraine by tapping frozen Russian ...
Quick Glance: Europe Considers Using Profits from Russian Assets to Arm Ukraine
  • Following the freezing of over $300 billion in assets, European leaders may propose utilizing profits from immobilized assets to aid Ukraine.

  • A proposal could offer about $3 billion annually for weapons to support Ukraine in battle as U.S. funding stalls and Ukraine faces desperation.

  • Despite the potential aid for Ukraine, the proposal is viewed by some as not extraordinary but also not negligible.

  • The debate on using frozen assets gains momentum as the EU grapples with how to address Russia's threat to global stability.
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Advent, CVC Make Joint Bid to Buy Partner in Pet Food: FT: Advent International and CVC Capital have submitted a joint bid to buy Hungary-based Partner in Pet ...
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Advent, CVC Make Joint Bid to Buy Partner in Pet Food: FT
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Apple Loses $113 Billion in Value After Regulators Close In: Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are training their eyes on Apple Inc. ...
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Apple Loses $113 Billion in Value After Regulators Close In
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War in Ukraine and Gaza: EU summit breaks taboos: Less restraint towards Israel and more money for weapons for Ukraine: The EU states are dismantling their major ...
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War in Ukraine and Gaza: EU summit breaks taboos
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EU column: Orban is betting everything on his pact with Donald Trump: The Hungarian has completely isolated himself in the West, but is brimming with ...
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EU column: Orban is betting everything on his pact with Donald Trump
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Brussels vs. Brussels: EU Parliament to sue Commission over Hungary cash: It’s a warning to Ursula von der Leyen “that the rule of law can’t be traded for deals ...
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Brussels vs. Brussels: EU Parliament to sue Commission over Hungary cash
Quick Glance: EU Parliament to Sue EU Commission Over Hungary Funds
  • The European Parliament is set to sue the European Commission for unblocking over €10bn in funds for Hungary in December ahead of an EU summit on Ukraine.

  • Critics highlight the lack of necessary reforms and suspicion of Orbán's potential blackmail of the Commission.

  • Demand for transparency is emphasized to properly assess the Commission's decision to release funds for Hungary.

  • The European Parliament will need to prove potential errors by the Commission and the fulfillment of rule of law conditions in Hungary at the European Court of Justice.
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Project documents more than 63,000 migrant deaths a decade, immense danger of fleeing home
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Project documents more than 63,000 migrant deaths a decade ...