George Soros Slams Polish-Hungarian Win in EU Budget Talks as Merkel s Surrender
Sputnik International
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Brussels was forced to back down on its rule-of-law requirements , originally imposed on member states so as to disburse pandemic relief funds, after Hungary and Poland suggested they could make the entire EU budget bill a no-go by vetoing it.
Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros has referred to Hungary and Poland finally forcing the EU to abandon its move to make coronavirus relief conditional on the rule of law criteria as Germany s surrender , according to an op-ed in
The financier, who has been sponsoring so-called open society causes all around the world, insisted the development was the worst of all possible worlds , proceeding to blame German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally for the outcome of the talks, saying she had
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