Hungary is nowhere near unblocking the €18 billion in cohesion and recovery funds that Brussels keeps frozen due to persisting concerns about democratic backsliding, according to the new edition of the Rule of Law Report, released by the European Commission on Tuesday.
It found that Hungary has made "no progress" on seven of the eight recommendations made last year, such as reforms on lobbying rules, the fight against high-level corruption and the editorial independence of public media.
