nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230404-152138-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230404s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230404-152138-0 doi eng 342 23 Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Frozen - How the EU is Blocking Funds to Hungary and Poland Using a Multitude of Conditionalities Scheppele, Kim Lane Verfassungsblog 2023-04-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier After years of inaction, the European Commission and Council jointly acted to freeze EU funds totaling more than €28.7 billion for Hungary and more than €110 billion for Poland at the end of 2022, citing rule-of-law violations. Surprisingly, the decisions were taken not just (or even primarily) using the new Conditionality Regulation designed for that purpose. Instead, they used a variety of other legal tools to which rule-of-law conditionality was attached. It remains somewhat mysterious, however, precisely which funds and what proportion of those funds have been suspended, and how those suspensions have been legally justified. This post, a shorter version of a SIEPS paper that will be published soon, describes what we know about the complex set of funding suspensions intended to make EU Member States pay for their rule-of-law violations. CC BY-SA 4.0 Conditionality Regulation EU Recovery Funds Hungary Poland Rule of Law Morijn, John Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/frozen/ raw object