Germany considers trying to link receipt of EU cohesion funds to respect for democratic principles.
The German government is looking into ways to enable the European Commission to freeze funding for EU member countries that don’t comply with the bloc’s standards regarding the rule of law.
An official German government position paper on future EU budget rules, which POLITICO has obtained, says Berlin wants to look into “whether receipt of EU cohesion funds can be linked to compliance with fundamental principles of the rule of law.”
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