<nettime> Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition

[Janos Sugar <sj@c3.hu>]

BRUSSELS - Authoritarian-minded leaders around the world have
used the coronavirus emergency to consolidate power. In Europe,
the governments of Poland and Hungary have done that and more.
They have managed to turn the crisis into a windfall and punish
their political opponents, too. In a hasty effort to show that
it was doing something to help during the virus crisis, the
European Union repurposed 37 billion euros - about $40 billion
- in structural aid funds, designed to help newer and poorer
members, for virus aid. The result: Hungary and Poland each
got considerably more money than virus-ravaged Italy or Spain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/europe/poland-hungary-coronavirus.html



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