Sunday September 18, three days after the adoption of the report carried by the ecologist MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, qualifying Hungary as a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”, the European Commission recommended the freezing of 65% of the funds of three programs intended for this Central European country, i.e. 7.5 billion euros in total.
The Commission threatens to block this aid intended for Hungary under the “conditionality mechanism”, validated in February by the Court of Justice of the European Union and activated in April against the country accused of attacks on EU values and European fund fraud. Budapest has until 19 November to respond to “Union concerns”said Commissioner Johannes Hahn during the press conference recording the decision.
“Atomic bomb”
According to the leftist daily Nepsava, the Commission’s recommendation to freeze a third of the cohesion funds concerning Hungary represents a “atomic bomb” for the Magyar executive. “Brussels got tired of the game of cat and mouse practiced with Hungary