Head of Hungary’s EP delegation: EC unlawfully withholding funding from Hungary
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The European Commission is violating the law by withholding recovery funding from Hungary for “political” and “ideological” reasons, the head of governing Fidesz’s delegation in the European Parliament said on public radio on Sunday.
MEP Tamás Deutsch told Kossuth Rádió that European Commissioner for Economy Paulo Gentiloni said days earlier that the EC had not transferred Hungary’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) funding because of concerns over ensuring public education regulation is free of discrimination.
He said Gentiloni’s remarks were “a rude surprise”, considering the commissioner had earlier said the issue of Hungarian legislation that codifies parents’ right to take charge of their children’s sexual education “played no role” in the EC’s delay of the approval of Hungary’s RRF plan.
“Hardly a month has gone by and Commissioner Gentiloni tells the truth,” he added.
Deutsch said the EC is raising concerns over an issue that is “solely in the scope of power of member states”. He added that Hungary’s government would “double its efforts” to counter the EC’s unlawful action and could launch a legal procedure.
The EU must give us the money – it is ours, we earned it, fairly!
Tell us one year that Hungary has been a net contributor to the EU budget. You can’t, because it has always received substantially more than it paid in. So less of this ‘earned it’ nonsense.