European Commission to delay accepting Hungary’s recovery plan

The government acknowledges that the latest attacks by the European Commission

are slowing the acceptance of the plan, which was created earlier through professional coordination.

“We trust that the recovery plan, which serves Hungary’s competitiveness and the restarting of its economy, will be evaluated on a professional, not on a political, basis,” the Prime Minister’s Office added. According to the statement, there is nothing wrong with the Hungarian plans and there is no genuine reason for any European Union organisation to reject the recovery plan.

Hungary has answered the European Commission’s newfound expectations, the statement said, and has met all conditions set by the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Talks between Hungary and the Commission continue, and we await the Commission’s decision, it concluded.

As the European Commission has not yet finished evaluating the plan to finance the recovery of damages caused by the coronavirus pandemic, it will ask for a two-month extension to the deadline. “

The evaluation of the Hungarian recovery plan may take weeks rather than days, so the European Commission will propose to the Hungarian authorities to agree to an extended deadline of two months,

spokesperson Arianna Podesta said on Monday. The EC is currently examining answers it has received on Friday to its earlier questions, she added.

The EC has approved the RRF plans of 16 member states so far, while five member states have asked for a deadline to the evaluation process of their plans.

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