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EU leaders discuss the final shape of the EU budget and recovery fund in December. Hungary and Poland held up approval until the very end, over the rule-of-law conditionality (Photo: Council of the European Union)

Commission pledges autumn launch of new rule-of-law tool

The EU Commission has started looking into cases of potential breaches of the respect of rule of law - which could trigger the new tool linking EU funds to such adherence, a top commission official said Wednesday (26 May).

Gert Jan Koopman, the director-general of the commission's budget department told MEPs that exchanges with concerned member states, information-gathering, and "case-building" are expected to happen in early autumn.

"That is not yet bringing a case to the counci...

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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.

EU leaders discuss the final shape of the EU budget and recovery fund in December. Hungary and Poland held up approval until the very end, over the rule-of-law conditionality (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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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.

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