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Rule-of-law row is top challenge to EU COVID recovery fund: senior official
Securing agreement on the exact conditions on respecting democracy to attach to the disbursement of European Union funds is the biggest challenge to implementing an EU plan to revive the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official said on Friday. European Council President Charles Michel, who chairs EU summits, spoke to Reuters and five other European news agencies after Hungary refused to grant its final approval to the EU recovery plan without guarantees on a linked mechanism on the rule of law. “There is a difficulty with this topic, it’s not new. But we made a big step on that in July and we must ... (full story)