Orban Slams EU Plan on Linking Funds to Rule-of-Law as ‘Illegal’
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A European Parliament initiative to tie the bloc’s payments to rule-of-law criteria in member states will fail as it is “illegal” and won’t be backed by national governments, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
The issue is at the heart of the campaign for European Parliament elections in May, where resurgent nationalists from Poland to Italy are seeking to wrest control of the world’s largest trading bloc.