Ukraine War Adds to EU Doubts Over Pursuing Poland, Hungary
- Rule-of-law violation penalties unlikely to be triggered soon
- Need for EU unity in focus after Russian invasion of Ukraine
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As Poland takes in more than a million refugees from the war in Ukraine, the European Union has another reason to hold back on economically punishing that nation and others for democratic backsliding.
The EU will likely hold off on immediately triggering its powerful new rule-of-law mechanism that allows the bloc to withhold budget payments to countries accused of breaking the bloc’s rules, particularly Poland and Hungary.