Hungary’s frozen cohesion funds testing EU’s rule of law conditionality
Zselyke Csaky, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, says the measures undertaken by the EU to counter violations of the rule of law have had mixed results, as observed in Hungary and Poland.
Csaky questions whether conditionality will be effective in the long term, especially if richer member-states begin to violate EU values, although she acknowledges it as the bloc’s most powerful tool for defending the rule of law.