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Hungary, the EU suspends the OK to the Recovery Plan funds: “The anti LGBT law is shameful”

Stop the recovery and resilience plan with funds from the Recovery fund for Hungary. The European Commission has positive evaluation suspended: some sources in Brussels have revealed this to the German agency Dpa. The precautionary measures for avoid abusive expenses dand the funds would not be “sufficient”.

€ 7.2 billion would be allocated to Hungary, but the fund cannot be paid if the plan is not approved. Relations between Brussels and Budapest are very tense: in recent days Ursula von der Leyen criticized the new Hungarian anti-LGBT law, calling it “shameful and discriminating” and “deeply in contradiction with the fundamental values ​​of the EU”.

The Commission is already preparing for open infringement proceedings against the new rule, and on Twitter the president wrote: «We will closely monitor the protection of the European budget and the Next Generation Eu. All national recovery plans include a robust control system and basic steps to monitor where the money goes. Because in the end it is the European citizens who pay them ». Regarding the Hungarian law, «We will not stand by and watch as entire regions declare themselves as ‘LGBTQ-free’. Europe will never allow that parts of our society are stigmatized. When we fight for some parts of our society, we fight for the freedom of our whole society ”.

Giorgia is on Orban’s side, however Meloni, president of the Brothers of Italy: “Sources in the EU Commission let it be known that Brussels is preparing to block the approval of Hungary’s Recovery Plan,” he says. «The umpteenth unacceptable political blackmail against the legitimate government of a sovereign nation, guilty of wanting to defend its own prerogatives provided by the treaties in force. They fill their mouths with the “rule of law” but then violate treaties and regulations in order to hit Viktor Orban. And they call it “Europeanism” ».

However, Brussels has time until 12 July to comment on the Hungarian PNRR.

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