{"id":580045,"date":"2026-09-23T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580045"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:41:05","slug":"european-commission-to-unblock-funds-for-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/european-commission-to-unblock-funds-for-hungary","title":{"rendered":"European Commission To Unblock Funds For Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The European Commission has proposed that the Council of the EU unblock funds allocated to Hungary and allow the country to rejoin the Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programs. If approved, the decision would give Budapest access to \u20ac4.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The funds were blocked at the end of 2022, when the Council, acting on a proposal from the European Commission, responded to violations of the rule-of-law principles in Hungary. The violations concerned public procurement, criminal prosecution, conflicts of interest, the fight against corruption and public-interest trusts.<\/p>\n<p>After P\u00e9ter Magyar&#8217;s victory in the parliamentary elections and Viktor Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s departure this year, the violations were remedied, as confirmed by the European Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has proposed that the Council of the EU unblock funds allocated to Hungary and allow the country to rejoin the Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programs. If approved, the decision would give Budapest access to \u20ac4.2 billion. The funds were blocked at the end of 2022, when the Council, acting on a proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab390a6772a2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"European Commission To Unblock Funds For Hungary"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580046,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580045\/revisions\/580046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}