nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221207-001624-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221206s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221207-001624-0 doi eng 342 23 Cseres, Kati Author aut The Commission’s missed opportunity to reclaim competition law for the Rechtsstaat Cseres, Kati Verfassungsblog 2022-12-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 30 November 2022, the European Commission took two important decisions to protect the EU budget against possible breaches of the rule of law in Hungary. First, the Commission concluded that the conditions for applying the Conditionality mechanism in Hungary remain and Hungary needs to take further and more credible action to eliminate the remaining risks for the EU budget. Second, the Commission has assessed Hungary’s Recovery and Resilience Plan and froze the disbursement of the RRF until the full and effective implementation of 27 ”super milestones” has taken place. Unfortunately, with these measures, missed opportunity to reclaim the importance of competition law in the Rechtsstaat. CC BY-SA 4.0 Competition Law conditionality mechanism EU Recovery Funds Hungary RRF Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-commissions-missed-opportunity-to-reclaim-competition-law-for-the-rechtsstaat/ raw object