Hungary, Poland, snipers from Europe

Traditional Rose Monday parade in Düsseldorf (Germany), Monday February 12, 2018. A float represents Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left;

and the Polish leader of the PiS party Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

AP - Martin Meissner

By: Daniel Desesquelle

2 min

Viktor Orban and Mateusz Morawiecki, Hungarian and Polish Prime Minister respectively, blocked the 750 billion euro stimulus plan, painstakingly developed by the 27, in July 2020.

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Hungary and Poland refuse to allow the payment of these funds to be linked to respect for the rule of law, undermined by Budapest and Warsaw.

These two countries which, today, could not join the European Union, if they were not already members, have started a showdown with the other European countries and for now the plan to stimulus, spearhead, economic recovery in Europe has stalled. 

The European Commission and the main European officials are considering how to get around the Polish-Hungarian obstacle.

But this attitude of mistrust poses an existential problem: can the European Union call into question, without denying itself, one of its foundations: respect for the rule of law and democratic rules? 

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- Thierry Chopin

, professor of political science at the Catholic University of Lille (ESPOL) and special advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute. 

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