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JUSTICE MINISTER: RULE OF LAW MECHANISM FOR DISTRIBUTION OF EU FUNDS 'BLACKMAIL'

 

The European Union introducing a rule of law mechanism for the distribution of EU funds is “about blackmail”, Justice Minister Judit Varga said in an interview published online by conservative German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Commenting on a debate about linking the rule of law to the distribution of EU funds, Varga said “Poland and Hungary got to feel what it is really about: Not about values, but about the usual blackmail of those countries that do not follow the majority trend in fields such as migration or the family.”