Hungary’s regional development minister and ex-EU commissioner is giving “personal” guarantees to EU officials that Budapest is in compliance with EU criteria for disbursing post-pandemic aid. “We make enough institutional changes [and] because I’m the chief negotiator I can give personal safeguards for that”, Tibor Navracsics told The Guardian after being sent to Brussels to negotiate a deal. The money was frozen due to Hungarian abuse of rule of law.
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