EU Floats More Delays to Hungary’s Funding as LGBTQ Row Deepens
- Hungary stimulus plan may face 2-month delay, EU official says
- Hungary accuses the EU of politicizing its pandemic aid plan
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The European Commission is withholding approval of Hungary’s recovery plan over what it says are insufficient safeguards against corruption, but Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government says the bloc is improperly using the process to punish it for the country’s new LGBTQ law.
EU finance ministers approved national pandemic stimulus plans from a dozen members on Tuesday, but Hungary was not among them. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive, said on Monday it needed more time to decide whether to back it.