EC didn’t approve Hungary’s recovery plans
The European Commission will propose prolonging the assessment period of Hungary’s recovery plan, in which the country has requested 7.2 billion euros in funding from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) designed to offset the fallout of the coronavirus epidemic, an EC spokesperson said on Monday.
“We are working constructively to conclude our assessment as fast as possible. Should our assessment require more weeks rather than days, we will propose to Hungary to agree on an extension of the 2-month deadline,” Arianna Podesta told a press conference in Brussels.
The EC accepted the recovery plans from 16 states by the Monday deadline, and asked for a prolonged assessment period in the case of Poland, Estonia, Romania, Sweden and Finland. During this period, the member states have the opportunity to provide further information to the Commission, and to amend their plans, Podesta said.
Hungary submitted its plan on the use of RRF funds in May, with the lion’s share — 34.1 percent of the funds — allocated to the development of the health-care system.
The development of environmentally friendly transport and the education system would receive 25 percent and 20.4 percent of the resources, respectively.
Additional development plans include promoting the switchover to the circular economy, closing the gap between underdeveloped and better developed regions, as well as environmental protection, he added.
PM Office reaction
The Prime Minister’s Office said in response that talks between the EC and Hungary had been under way and close to completion when the commission “came up with impossible demands” after the government-sponsored child protection law, which the EU decried as discriminative, was passed.
The recovery plan, which was “shaped in consultation with experts, is being hobbled by ideologically and politically motivated attacks,” the PM’s office said in a statement.
Hopefully, the plan will be assessed on professional grounds, independently from “Brussels’s insistence on letting LMBTQ activists into Hungarian kindergartens and schools,”
the statement said, referring to criticisms that Hungary’s child protection law discriminated against the LMBTQ community.
“There is no reason for EU bodies to reject the Hungarian plan. We have responded to demands which were sprung on us unexpectedly, and fulfilled all requirements in line with RRF regulations,” the statement said.
“Talks are ongoing between Hungary and the European Commission on the Hungarian recovery plan, and we await the Commission’s decision,” it said.
The statement slammed the Hungarian opposition for “lobbying for the Hungarian plan and talks to be frozen”.
As we wrote today, Brussels “could not thwart the Hungarian economy even if it wanted to”, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said in an interview on Monday. Detials HERE.
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Source: MTI
Why does this article only include the version of Fidesz?
It’s common practice in journalism to ask different and independent sources.
The European Commission – led by the most corrupt German since Adolf Hitler was Führer (whatever happened to those HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF EUROS ‘lost’ during your time as Germany’s Defence Minister, dear Ursula ?) – has decided to NOT approve Hungary’s COVID-19 ‘recovery plan’.
In so doing, this collection of political failures and total misfits has listened to not only Hungary’s ‘sausage coalition’ (itself a group of wannabe politicians who represent the worst aspects of Hungarian society) but also pathetic fools like the President of European Parliament (David Sassoli – best described as ‘canine faeces on legs’), the Prime Minister of the Netherlands (who is continually on ‘bended knees’ to his gay friends) and – needless to say – other truly disgusting individuals who all belong in a Stalinist-era gulag.
These misguided ‘cerebrites’ believe that Hungary can be ‘broken’ by starving the country of E.U. ‘recovery funds’ which – in effect – it would be paying for over the next generation or so.
However, if Hungary is NOT allocated the funds it has been promised then it can rightly REFUSE to pay one forint towards the so-called ‘Recovery and Resilience Facility’ (yet alone any future such funds),
VETO all attempts by the E.U. to set a ‘minimal tax for companies’ within the grouping and – of course – act in other ways which might not be in accordance with ‘directives from Brussels’.
The current headache that the European Commission / Parliament has due to Hungary’s recently-passed legislations that have been decried by LGBTQWXYZs (and their ‘supporters’) are just a FORETASTE of ‘things to come’ – if those LURID E.U. institutions continue acting against Hungary like has been the case
in recent times.
Who will be on ‘bended knees’ first, dearest Mark ?
The comments from who was AlfredE.Neuman, no matter what name he goes under, are getting more outrageous and disgusting by the minute. Why is the DNH not censoring his filth. Freedom of speech? It’s nothing more than the rantings of someone who clearly has a lot of problems.
The development of environmentally friendly transport
you mean trams and trolly buses ,I hope,
and they are much worse than hitler ,,he did not invade the uk
like SHE.. and her africans ,did ,,
Whoever Bended Knees is, he she is a formidable intellect.
Perhaps a little too outspoken but this just proves the point what lies the EU is spreading about the Hungarian government restricting the media.
It is a caricature in words.
Good job.
To Censorship please: I heartily agree with you. The man is a menace.
Censorship – please – absolutely concur with your comments.
It is known to powerful and influential people – not aligned to the Fidesz Party – the political party this individual represents, palm is greased, the true identity of this moronic, depraved, sad and lost individual AlfredE.Neuman – who writes under vast numbers of pseudonym names and has for an extended long period of time.
What action DNH can and should take against his acid tongue and degrading humiliating tone of writing, is a decision that DNH should not avoid.
It will come back to haunt AlfredE.Neuman – when the time nearing is Right.
He certainly has learnt no lesson as seen out of the European Parliament last Thursday – that you can bait, play power games and “flaunt” rules and laws – whilst just in the process of constant aggravation, you are being set up, taking the bait, that is feeding you for a big fall – like Hungary took the bait, and is challenged to address the European Union – its Future in it – at this time.
AlfredE.Neuman and his pseudonym names the big chip he has on his shoulders is that he is CHALLENGED feels inferior by his own personal lack of intelligence.
The disclosure or true identification of this lost depraved individual – will be sooner than later.
AlfredE.Neuman watch your line feeds and IT resources.
Hungary wants EU money, a very great deal of it, but does not want to accept decent standards of democracy, accountability and Human Rights.
Honesty is the best policy and these days it is very rare indeed.
@Peter
The first half of the article is from the EU, namely Arianna Podesta. The reaction follows. Dont understand your problem.
The most dangerous mistake the EU is doing is to feed its biggest enemy and thus helping him to remain in power. Orbán is a Troyan horse for the Union.
With all the vicious words and arguments non of you have said a single thing that solves the problem.
Hungary (like a lot of other nations) joined the EU at a time when the EU was NOT SO POWER-HUNGRY.
Hungary joined for trade (as I have said a number of times) as simple as that.