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Euroviews. Forget tying rule of law to the EU budget. It's better to add strings to EU funding later ǀ View
Angela Merkel is right to be concerned about fuelling support for populist authoritarians by tying EU budget funds to the rule of law. But that doesn't mean the EU can't punish such regimes financially further down the line.
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EU leaders task Commission with pandemic recovery plan
While EU leaders asked the Commission to come up with a plan on the long-term recovery, they've signed off on a previously agreed 540 billion euro package to deal with the short term consequences of the economic downturn and insist it’s functioning by June 1st.