After nearly a month of stall, appeals to responsibility and discussions about any “Plans B” that would further split Europe, Poland e Hungary they seem willing to overcome the veto on the next budget of the Union to which the Recovery fund 750 billion of which Italy is the main beneficiary. Although it is not yet clear whether and in what terms the rest of the EU will have to give up. Konrad Szymaski, Polish minister for relations with the European Union, has in fact made it known that “the German presidency has agreed with the Polish executive and has modified the content of the provision“Which concerns the mechanism of conditionality on the rule of law, contested by the two countries of the Visegrad block. For the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, “We can see a positive glimmer in the negotiations”. Also the president of the European People’s Party and former president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, stated that “The blackmail of the veto has failed“.
According to Financial Times we are working on an “interpretative rule” that allows the EU not to cancel the ea clause Viktor Orban e Mateusz Morawiecki to claim (at home) a political victory, stepping out of the corner they found themselves in after Brussels started working on the alternative plan of a “25” recovery fund. Although Orban claimed that he does not need the Recovery funds which “are just loans”, the two countries are among the largest beneficiaries of European funds every year and giving up the whole cake would be a boomerang.
In the morning, the Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin, quoted by Bloomberg, had spoken of “an agreement between Warsaw, Budapest and Berlin”, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU Council. “I believe that the agreement can include the others 24 European capitals”By Friday, at the end of the European Council, he had anticipated. The turning point came on the eve of the crucial European Council called to discuss coordination on Covid 19 but also how to proceed after the refusal of Budapest and Warsaw to link European funding to the respect for the rule of law. The news was not commented on by Germany or by the heads of government of Hungary and Poland. Gowin, who was the biggest supporter of the abandonment of the threat of veto on the part of Poland, he refused to go into details, saying only that it keeps “Poland sovereign and the EU united”.
The Italian premier, in his speech in the Senate in view of the European Council, wanted to give an anticipation: “I anticipate you, dutifully but with the utmost caution, that in the very last hours it would seem that there is a positive opening in the negotiations – he said – I invite you to caution because until the end we wait to read the proposal an interpretative declaration, shared by the two countries, regarding the conditionality of the rule of law. We absolutely cannot renounce what has already been recognized and affirmed on the subject, it would be absolutely incompatible with the objectives and principles already stated “.
Yesterday Orban, after that the EPP group spokesperson in the European Parliament Manfred Weber it had opened to his expulsion from the party, wrote him a letter claiming that he wanted it loosen relationships among his party Fidesz and the People’s Party group. The letter, published in the newspaper Nepszava, speaks of “differences of interests and communication problems” between the Fidesz MEPs and the presidency of the group, for which we must arrive at less close relations in the future. Fidesz has been suspended from the EPP for 2 years and Orban does so on first step to exit.
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