In this second a part of Europe Rendezvous, Armen Georgian is in Hungary and Austria on his whistle-stop journey throughout the EU, exploring mobility and transport initiatives funded by the EU’s cohesion coverage.
Watch extraCrossing borders: The EU powers your mobility (half 1)
Our journey continues in Hungary, the place the ouster of longtime prime minister and strongman Viktor Orban spells the possible unfreezing of EU funds that had been blocked due to the rule-of-law abuses whereas Orban was in energy. We have a look at how transport initiatives have been hit by corruption and the freezing of EU cash with Gabor Eross, a former deputy mayor of Budapest’s eighth district. Meanwhile, FRANCE 24’s Charlotte Prudhomme dives into the corruption concern with Jozsef Peter Martin, the chief director of the Hungarian chapter of Transparency International.
Armen Georgian additionally meets Hungarian MEP Andras Laszlo, a member of Orban’s Fidesz social gathering. Laszlo argues that the EU cash freeze was itself a violation of EU norms and a transparent double normal when put next with the best way the EU Commission handled a extra Brussels-friendly authorities in Poland.
The journey ends in Austria, the place Armen meets the overall secretary of Pro Danube International, Robert Rafael, to discover the bureaucratic hurdles nonetheless hampering connectivity and transport flows throughout this nice river.
Editor-in-Chief: Caroline de Camaret
Presented by Armen Georgian
Visual course and Camera: Stéphane Bodenne, Charlotte Prudhomme and Luke Brown
“Europe Rendezvous” is {a magazine} programme broadcast on FRANCE 24 in French and English, on YouTube and on france24.com.
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