Hungary sends ex-commissioner to plead for EU cash

Hungary’s regional improvement minister and ex-EU commissioner is giving “private” ensures to EU officers that Budapest is in compliance with EU standards for disbursing post-pandemic help. “We make sufficient institutional modifications [and] as a result of I am the chief negotiator I may give private safeguards for that”, Tibor Navracsics instructed The Guardian after being despatched to Brussels to barter a deal. The cash was frozen attributable to Hungarian abuse of rule of regulation.