EU plans to link some budget funds to respect for the rule of law will be part of the grand bargain at EU leaders' negotiations on Thursday's (20 February) summit over the bloc's spending plans.
It is one of the key issues dividing member states in a budget haggle that has been described by EU officials as the most divisive in decades.
Several EU affairs ministers criticised the recent proposal from EU Council president Charles Michel - which they argued waters-down a possibly ef...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.