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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20221209-001524-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-hungary-files/ The Hungary Files - Untangling the political and economic knots Nguyen, Thu eng 2022-12-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 cohesion funds Hungary Next Generation EU RRF Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The battle over the rule of law in Hungary is coming to a head. Two separate but related dossiers landed on the EU Council’s agenda on Tuesday, 6 December: firstly, whether to suspend 7.5 billion Euros in funds under the EU’s cohesion policy under the new rule of law conditionality mechanism; and secondly, whether to approve the Hungarian national recovery and resilience plan. Both files are currently stuck in a political limbo as the member states cannot agree on a common course of action, complicated by the fact that Orbán is holding his veto over Brussel’s head on an aid package for Ukraine and a global corporate tax, both of which require unanimity in the Council. Now the question is: Who will move first, Orbán or the other member states?