The European Union’s institutions are gearing up for a fight over Hungary and a contentious transfer of 10 billion euros (nearly $11 billion) in funds to Budapest.
The European Parliament decided to assess Thursday whether to take the bloc’s executive branch, the European Commission, to court over allegations that it gave into blackmail from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to get his approval to start membership talks with Ukraine.
The European Parliament made the decision in a 345-104 vote and tasked its legal department to prepare the groundwork for a possible challenge at the EU’s highest court. It wants to see whether the European Commission took all measures “to protect the EU’s financial interests” in its dealings with Orbán. They said that Hungary didn’t meet the rule of law requirements to get the money.
Funny seeing Von der Leyen in the thumbnail when really the “EU institutions” in questions are the EU parliament, who is trying to take the Commission (lead by Von der Leyen) to court for being too kind with those EU funds.
If anything, she’s the target of this “lawsuit”.
German politicians like her and mostly Merkel have built the Hungarian system by being very generous with EU funds and covering for the guys in Hungary in exchange for cheap workforce for the German car industry. It’s roughly the only thing Orbán has been consistent on, besides enriching himself, of course. He’s actually bringing migrants into the country now.
Continental at Makó for example had a strike a while back, now the Hungarians have been fired so they can hire immigrants from Southeast Asia. Only thing that changed about this is that now it’s not just VW raiding the country, it’s also BYD.
Off topic, but seeing Von der Leyen in such a tired (?) state gives me Star Wars Emperor vibes.
