Socialists Launch Consultation on EU Recovery Funds

Economy
Coronavirus

The Socialists are launching a consultation with trade unions on the use of the European Union’s coronavirus recovery fund, an MEP of the opposition party said.

István Ujhelyi told an online press conference that Hungary was slated to receive over 5,000 billion forints (EUR 13.9bn) from the EU funds raised to offset the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Spending is tied to “strict conditions and concrete goals”, and the monies will have to be accounted for, he noted. Member states are required to prepare reform plans after consulting with local authorities, civil organisations and trade unions, “to make sure that the European community is not forced to fund certain governments’ pet projects,” Ujhelyi said.

The Hungarian government published the call for consultation on a “hidden little website”, asking social partners’ opinion on a “sketchy document a few pages long”. “This is not consultation; the government is shunning its work,” Ujhelyi said.
Deputy party leader Imre Komjáthi said the party was turning to trade unions in a letter, seeking their opinions and proposals on how to spend recovery monies. Ujhelyi will then forward the letters to “EU officials in charge” with the hope that funding goes towards job protection and Hungarian families, Komjáthi said.

 

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