Poland may give up its veto on the EU budget, leaving Hungary alone...

HUNGARY - In Brief 03 Dec 2020 by Istvan Racz
...in which case it would be terribly difficult for PM Orbán to maintain the Hungarian veto. Sorry to say, but Hungary is just too small in itself to be important enough to efficiently block such a big project as the 7-year EU budget and the recovery package attached to it.The news comes from Jaroslaw Govin, Polish deputy PM, who is responsible for the economy in the Polish government. He has been reported a short while ago as saying that the Polish government would be prepared to give up its budget veto if the EU issued a legally binding statement that the rule-of-law mechanism embedded in the fiscal plan will never be used for anything else than just securing the regular and proper use of EU funds. Also, EU budget commissioner Johannes Hahn tweeted earlier today that talks with Poland and Hungary were going to be held during the day to secure an accord with the vetoing two by tomorrow.Regarding Poland, it may be worth to briefly highlight a few features in which the country is different from Hungary:1. its government is a coalition, in which one party, led by Jaroslaw Govin, has been consequently opposing his government's EU budget veto, in view of the harm it may cause to the Polish economy;2. Poland is always looking more to the west than to the east, because of its traditional opposition to Russia; and3. Because of its relatively large size, Poland is typically seeking to play a bit of a central role in Europe, at least as the leading power within the CEE, meaning that it is normally less prepared to take extreme positions in the EU than Hungary.

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