MEPs will question commissioners Johannes Hahn (Budget and Administration), Didier Reynders (Justice), and Nicolas Schmit (Jobs and Social Rights) about the application of the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation and Hungary’s access to cohesion funds. The debate will be led by rapporteurs Petri SARVAMAA (EPP, FI) and Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL (S&D, ES), who negotiated the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation on behalf of Parliament with the Council.

When: from 16.00 to 17.30 on Wednesday 24 January
Where: ANTALL (6Q2) (Brussels) and online on EP Multimedia center and EbS

The debate takes place after the European Parliament adopted a resolution in January, criticising the Commission’s decision to release up to €10.2 billion of previously frozen funds, despite Hungary not fulfilling the demanded reforms for judicial independence. Parliament had also warned that it would look into whether legal action should be pursued to overturn the Commission’s decision.

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