Tighten the requirements further to receive EU funds. The call comes in a joint letter from Sweden's and Finland's new EU ministers to the new EU Commission that will take office in the fall.
It's about strengthening all the mechanisms and overarching conditions that exist to access the EU budget. The principles of the rule of law must be safeguarded in all situations, emphasizes EU Minister Jessica Rosencrantz (The Moderate Party) on her way into a ministerial meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
The ministerial meeting is the first for Rosencrantz since she replaced party colleague Jessika Roswall on September 10.