The agreement reached at the European summit on the EU's contested rule-of-law conditionality regulation put an end to the Hungarian-Polish blockade of the EU's historic €1.8 trillion budget deal.
The deal is not only a Christmas gift for those, mostly southern European, governments that have been desperately waiting for a fast access to the EU's coronavirus recovery funds, but also for the German Council presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel.
The reputation of German EU diplom...
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Daniel Hegedüs is fellow for central Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.