The European Commission on Thursday (23 November) approved the release of €920m to Hungary under the country's recovery and resilience plan — a decision which has sparked criticism and raised eyebrows.
The move is widely perceived as a pre-emptive attempt by the commission to bypass Hungary's veto power to block additional aid to Ukraine in the upcoming European Council in December.
Until now, all EU funds linked to Hungary'...
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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.