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EP adopts resolution on swift implementation of rule-of-law conditionality
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The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution proposing the swift implementation of the rule-of-law conditionality, which ties the payment of EU funding to member states applying the basic principles of the EU.
The resolution was adopted with 478 votes in favour, 155 against and 29 abstentions. The EP welcomed the European Court of Justice’s recent decision rejecting actions brought against the rule of law conditionality by Hungary and Poland.
The EP called on the European Commission to take “immediate steps” against “grave breaches against the principle of the rule of law in member states”, and said
the conditionality should be applied for funding within the 2021-2027 financial framework as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility
, an instrument set up to offset the fallout of the coronavirus epidemic.
The EP delegation of Hungary’s Fidesz called it “unacceptable” that “the Leftist parties will attempt political blackmail in a war situation”. “Rather than supporting Hungary and Poland’s fight to provide for Ukrainian refugees, Leftist politicians threaten them with blocking their EU funding for political reasons,” the statement said.
And in another lesson for Mr Orbán in Versailles “calls from Ukraine’s president, supported by Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, for a special membership process failed to convince France, Germany, Spain or the Netherlands……..Western European governments opposed to rushing to EU candidacy status are concerned by the widespread corruption in Ukraine, the lack of stability in its institutions, and its parlous economic state. The experience in being unable to act in relation to the democratic deficit in Hungary and Poland has put off a number of capitals from any enlargement before big reforms of the bloc’s decision-making mechanisms.” Guardian, 10th March,
And in another lesson for Mr Orbán (looking very dapper with his schoolboy centre parting) in Versailles, “calls from Ukraine’s president, supported by Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, for a special membership process failed to convince France, Germany, Spain or the Netherlands…….Western European governments opposed to rushing to EU candidacy status are concerned by the widespread corruption in Ukraine, the lack of stability in its institutions, and its parlous economic state. The experience in being unable to act in relation to the democratic deficit in Hungary and Poland has put off a number of capitals from any enlargement.” Guardian (10th March). What’s the old saying? Once bitten twice shy…….