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[TVP Info] Interview on the EU's "Rule of Law" Mechanism
The EU is recklessly exploiting vital, arduously negotiated Covid-19 relief for the partisan end of bending Poland and Hungary. But the bloc's mutation into a coercive mechanism to impose unpopular policies should concern every other country, too.
This interview featured on Saturday, November 28th on Tvp.info, the news portal and broadcaster of Poland's largest TV network, Telewizja Polska S.A. Read the Polish version on Tvp.info's website here.
Tvp.info — The tension in the EU is high because allegedly nobody wanted a budget impasse. You say otherwise and say that it is “a stick, which is to bend Poland and Hungary once and for all” . What about countries like Slovenia or southern Europe that do not really want a conflict over money and escalating tensions?
JGGH — That’s a key point to start off with — the so-called “rule of law conditionality mechanism” that has been pegged onto the EU budget deal is in no way the result of any unanimous agreement between the EU27 minus Hungary and Poland. On the contrary, it is a small faction of countries (Germany and the Netherlands primarily, although their strategy in the EU Council has wide…
