The European Union is unlikely to approve the disbursement of pandemic aid to Poland and Hungary this year, a top official said on Tuesday, in a sign that the conflict over the rule of law is not close to being resolved.
Poland’s request for 36 billion euros ($40.4 billion) from the EU’s recovery fund has been locked in a dispute over the government’s judicial revamp that escalated further after the country’s top court ruled in October that some of the bloc’s laws are incompatible with its constitution.
