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Hungary ratifies EU post-corona recovery fund

Hungarian MPs overwhelmingly ratified an EU fund for post-pandemic economic recovery in a vote on Wednesday, paving the way for €750bn in joint European borrowing and spending in coming years. Austria, Poland, and Romania are still to do so. But Hungary had been a potential stumbling block, amid an EU clash with its nationalist-populist regime on rule of law, and Budapest's frequent use of EU vetoes to force concessions.

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