Here’s how the money from the Commission’s most recent Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative (CRII), mobilizing €37 billion from the current EU budget, is disbursed to different EU countries according to pre-existing rules: “Italy was allocated CRII funding equivalent to 0.1 percent of its GDP, and Spain 0.3 percent, Hungary received an astonishing 3.9 percent of its GDP in CRII funding.

In cash, that’s €2.3 billion for Italy, and €5.6 billion for Hungary, which has about one-sixth the population of Italy (and where the government is accused of using the crisis to disguise a power grab). Reminder: “Italy was then the country most affected by the coronavirus, with more than 9,100 deaths on 27 March. Hungary had 10. The European Commission admitted that this was not ‘an optimal allocation.’

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