nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/8d3032182ff5cd25 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231212s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/8d3032182ff5cd25 doi eng 342 23 Farkas, Erika Author aut Trick and Treat? - Hungary's Game of Non-Compliance Farkas, Erika Verfassungsblog 2023-12-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Almost a year has passed since the European Union decided to block the payment of EUR 27 billion in union funds to Hungary under several instruments. Access to the largest part of the frozen funds - altogether EUR 13 billion - depends on whether Hungary complies with its undertakings to strengthen judicial independence. The government claims to have met all four of the so-called super milestones by adopting a judicial package in May 2023 and requests access to the blocked funds under Hungary’s Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) and ten different operative programmes. However, upon taking a closer look at the preconditions to the payments and the nature and implementation of the proposed reforms, it becomes clear that Hungary is still playing tricks to avoid compliance. CC BY-SA 4.0 conditionality mechanism EU rule of law framework Hungary judicial independence rule of law backsliding Kádár, András Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/trick-and-treat/ raw object