… The European Commission now has two months to assess the formal recovery and resilience plans it has received from national governments on the basis of the 11 criteria set out in the regulation. … If all this happens, Hungary will be entitled to receive a 13 per cent pre-financing of the National Recovery and Flexibility Plan: a gigantic amount of EU funding right at the beginning of the election campaign. … But if the hurry is so great, why did the RRF consultation drag on until spring? …

… “It seems that the government does not want to do a ‘national consultation’ with the MPs. …

… 2020 has been the worst year for the Hungarian economy since 2010, but a couple of weeks ago, György Matolcsy, the Chairman of the Hungarian National Bank, even said that last year could be amongst the worst 5 in the past 100 years. … Projections by the Hungarian National Bank and the IMF both show that Hungary could be looking at economic growth this year once again, and according to GKI Economic Research Co., the Hungarian economy could be back to its 2019 levels as early as 2022 … Biden's national security advisor is no reason for Orbán to get his hopes up either; Jake Sullivan, describing the hardening of US foreign policy, said that "the exposure of corruption by leaders of foreign countries" could be an effective tool to combat … At the start of 2020, the government started building up a National Consultation on the "causes hurting the Hungarian sense of justice" which was ultimately washed away by the pandemic. …