http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20221107-215614-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/with-or-without-hungary/ With or Without Hungary - The Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation and the Elephant in the Voting Room Leitner, Philipp Zöchling, Julia eng 2022-11-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 conditionality conditionality mechanism Conditionality Regulation Hungary Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 By December 2022, the Council must vote on the Commission's proposal to withdraw EU budgetary funds from Hungary under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation. Without a legal basis for its exclusion, Hungary will cast its vote on that proposal. Obviously, the participation of a Member State in a vote that decides on the consequences of its own rule of law violations seems paradoxical. There should be a general Treaty rule that prevents a Member State from voting in the Council when their own alleged misconduct is at stake.