- – It will be a working meeting, as well as a continuation of the talks initiated in Hungary between the prime ministers – said government spokesman Piotr Müller
- EU Member States did not reach unanimity on the EU’s multi-annual budget for 2021-2027 and the decisions on the reconstruction fund
- – The Prime Minister emphasized in an interview with Angela Merkel that the mechanism may lead to tensions harmful to the European Union – added Piotr Müller
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– Today’s working meeting aims, inter alia, at discussing further actions in the context of the EU budget negotiations and the upcoming European Council summit – added the government spokesman.
As he stated, “there is no official proposal of the European Commission, and only backstage discussions are taking place in the EU.” – They are not public, so I do not want to comment on it. We hear about countries that express objections to the rule of law mechanism, such as Slovenia and Portugal, Müller said at a press conference.
However, the Portuguese government maintains its support for the rule of law in the EUFor several months, Prime Minister Antonio Costa has been trying to ensure that the dependence of the EU budget on the rule of law does not delay payments from the fund, which is to serve the recovery of EU countries after the pandemic.
EU Member States did not reach unanimity on the EU’s multiannual budget for 2021-2027 and the decisions on the reconstruction fund. Poland and Hungary raised objections in relation to the regulation linking access to EU funds with the rule of law. At a meeting of EU ambassadors, the regulation was adopted by a qualified majority of member states.
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The prime minister spoke with Angela Merkel
On Friday, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany is currently conducting budget negotiations under the presidency of the EU Council. After the conversation, the prime minister announced that he had stated to the German chancellor that Poland expected further work to find a solution that would guarantee the rights of all EU countries and that he was ready to veto the new budget.
The head of the Polish government announced earlier that Poland would certainly exercise its right to object, if there was no agreement satisfying Warsaw on linking the rule of law with the EU budget. The Hungarian prime minister wrote a letter to the German presidency and heads of EU institutions, in which he threatened to veto the EU budget and the reconstruction fund if the disbursement of funds was related to the rule of law.
– The Prime Minister emphasized in an interview with Angela Merkel that the mechanism may lead to tensions harmful to the European Union. Poland and Hungary are against it because we want a strong EU, said Piotr Müller.
On Thursday in Budapest, the prime ministers of Poland and Hungary signed a declaration on agreeing a critical stance on linking payments from the budget to “arbitrary and biased criteria for violations of the rule of law”.
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