The position of Poland and Hungary looks to me like a bluff. I don’t think they would go so far as to block the budget. Poland at least will think twice about it, simply because they would risk losing a lot of money.
Pawel Zerka is quoted in Toute l'Europe press review regarding Hungary and Poland stance on the European budget
Poland was once the leading voice of the EU’s east. But smaller countries such as Lithuania have overtaken it in responding to the situation in Belarus.
Oko Press republished Pawel Zerka's latest commentary on Poland losing its influence amongst EU’s eastern neighbours
The involvement of other European leaders can be based on the model of the trio formed by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, with Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who travelled to Kiev in 2014 for the crisis in the Maidan
Pawel Zerka on Poland's difficult stance within Europe after the past elections.
[A second term can allow the government to] dismantle the country’s already damaged system of checks and balances – in a similar way that already happened in Hungary
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