Hungary and Poland Defy EU in Showdown Over Stimulus Package
- Budget holdouts reject conditionality over EU funding
- Stalemate all but certain to delay aid to pandemic-hit regions
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Hungary and Poland dived into a major confrontation with their European Union partners and vowed to veto the bloc’s stimulus package.
In a defiant briefing in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, demanded changes that face outright rejection and showed little sign they’d reverse objections to tying budget financing to rule-of-law standards.