Poland, Hungary to Discuss Possible End to EU Budget Standoff
- Morawiecki and Orban to meet in Warsaw on possible compromise
- The two countries publicly stick to plan to veto spending pact
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will host Hungary’s Viktor Orban on Tuesday to discuss a potential fix to the standoff over the European Union’s budget that’s holding up $2.2 trillion in funds.
Budapest and Warsaw have been discussing a political compromise that would see the EU clarify how a rule-of-law mechanism would be attached to the bloc’s seven-year budget, which needs unanimous consent from the bloc’s 27 members.