EU Plans to Skirt Veto on Virus Fund; Poland Sends Mixed Signals
- Budapest and Warsaw oppose rule of law conditions on funding
- Polish deputy premier sees landing zone, while boss holds line
Main Market Square amid Coronavirus partial lockdown, Krakow, Poland.
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European Union leaders are preparing to get around the threat posed by Poland and Hungary’s block of a multi-trillion dollar stimulus fund as Warsaw showed signs of cracking.
The two eastern European nations are opposed to the rule-of-law conditions attached to the aid package and continue to wield their veto, though Poland is getting nervous. The clock is ticking to the end of the year, when the lack of unanimity will trigger an emergency budget for the bloc.