The EU Budget Standoff, Waiting for Resolution

Visegrad Insight Podcast

Today’s meeting between Viktor Orbán and Mateusz Morawiecki is the latest event in a long-brewing standoff over the EU’s Multi-annual financial framework and the COVID-19 Recovery Fund. While the European Parliament and nearly all member states agree on the overall size as well as the rule of law mechanism, Budapest and Warsaw continue to hold onto their budget veto. The 1.8 trillion euros package offers a lifeline to many recession-stricken countries, hence what are the possible scenarios and their economic implications? Our guests this week are: Daniel Kelemen, Jean Monnet Chair at Rutgers University, Piotr Arak, Director of the Polish Economic Institute, and finance journalist and Visegrad Insight Fellow Zsuzsanna Szabó.

Wojciech Przybylski on why Hungary will give up its veto: https://visegradinsight.eu/hungary-will-give-way-to-tactical-pragmatism/

The veto strategy of Budapest and Warsaw analysed by Daniel Kelemen for Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/time-to-call-hungary-and-polands-bluff/