• <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-court-nears-decision-poland-hungary-cash-rights-challenge-2021-12-02/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">EU’s threat to cut Poland and Hungary’s budget</a> got a boost after the Advocate General to EU Court of Justice backed the legality of the bloc assigning itself new powers to withhold budget distribution from nations backsliding on democratic standards in a non-binding opinion. Hungary and Poland reacted to this by saying that the conditionality mechanism is “basically blackmailing” and breaks the EU law as it can lead into arbitrary decisions by the bloc to withhold funds from member states.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Background: EU has been at odds with Hungary and Poland for months over growing concerns surrounding the issues of erosion of judicial independence, LGBT+ rights, freedom of the press, and migration. The European Commission triggered the “conditionality mechanism” last month, a new tool to withhold payments from its budget if the countries reject to comply with EU law.</li></ul>

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