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Brussels Warns Poland And Hungary They Cannot Stop EU Recovery Fund (FT)

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{EU} The EU budget commissioner has warned Poland and Hungary that Brussels is ready to cut them out of the recovery fund and proceed with the project without them if they continue to block Europe's upcoming budget. Johannes Hahn said that Warsaw and Budapest "cannot stop us from helping our citizens" as he confirmed that the commission's lawyers had identified possible ways of circumventing the two capitals' objections to the EU's spending plans. His intervention, in a Financial Times interview, steps up the pressure on the two countries as they block the planned €750bn pandemic recovery fund as well as the EU's seven-year budget.

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