Published: January 16th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The dispute over the rule of law in Hungary and the handling of „frozen“ funds from the EU budget is coming to a head. On Tuesday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament threatened to take the EU Commission to the European Court of Justice. Although the Parliament cannot take legal action itself, it can ask the Legal Affairs Committee to do so. The release of €10.2 billion, which the Commission announced immediately before the EU summit in December, was not carried out properly, according to a statement by the large political groups, which was also supported by the Left Group in the European Parliament.