Published: March 12th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

In the dispute over the rule of law in Hungary, the EU Parliament is clashing with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has spoken out in favor of taking legal action before the European Court of Justice against the release of €10 billion from the EU budget approved in December. Von der Leyen had not sufficiently justified the disbursement and was endangering the rule of law, it said.