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European Commission maintains freeze on EU funds to Hungary over rule of law (2024)
Through 2024 the European Commission kept large portions of Hungary's EU funding suspended under the rule-of-law conditionality mechanism and related rules, concluding Budapest had not sufficiently remedied breaches affecting judicial independence, corruption controls and the protection of the EU budget. Roughly EUR 19 billion remained frozen, and in late 2024 Hungary permanently lost about EUR 1 billion of suspended cohesion money after failing to meet conditions within the allotted period.
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Through 2024 the European Commission kept large portions of Hungary's EU funding suspended under the rule-of-law conditionality mechanism and related rules, concluding Budapest had not sufficiently remedied breaches affecting judicial independence, corruption controls and the protection of the EU budget. Roughly EUR 19 billion remained frozen, and in late 2024 Hungary permanently lost about EUR 1 billion of suspended cohesion money after failing to meet conditions within the allotted period.
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