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Building Civic Resilience: Challenges and Solutions in Central Europe
12 December 2024
30 May 2023
While Hungary and Poland are still clamouring to get the EU recovery funds withheld due to rule of law violations, some member states with access suffer systemic corruption from a lack of transparency in reporting.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) fund is supposed to prepare Europe for future crises and make the Member States more efficient. Except that, we don’t always know whether this money is actually being well spent.
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And this is huge money, huge investments and fundamental reforms. The sum total hovers at around 700 billion euros of European taxpayers’ money, borrowed by the EU on the financial markets.