EU to send money only after a government change?

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The European Union’s freezing reconstruction funds for Hungary is “not connected in any way” to the country’s passing anti-paedophilia legislation, Socialist MEP István Újhelyi said on Wednesday.
 
Újhelyi quoted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as saying on Tuesday that the EU had, “in cooperation with the LGBTQ movements, attacked the so-called child-protection law”, adding that Orbán was “lying”.
 
Újhelyi insisted that the contested legislation was “nothing but provocation, passed to provide an excuse for disputes with EU institutions and an explanation for their freezing community funding”.
 
In recent months, the
 
EU has withheld some 320 billion forints (EUR 869m) from Hungary,
 
as the European Commission has not approved the country’s reconstruction plan, Újhelyi said, pledging to have those funds released once a new government was set up. 
 
Újhelyi warned that development funds for Hungary in the next EU budgeting cycle were “also in danger” in view of the EU’s possible application of a rule of law mechanism against Hungary in January.

Source: MTI

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