Hungary and Poland block EU budget

World Business Report - Podcast tekijän mukaan BBC World Service

The EU's Covid-19 financial rescue package has been blocked by Hungary and Poland. Zoltan Kovacks is official spokesman for the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, and tells us why the country has taken this step. And Terry Reintke, German MEP for the Green Party discusses whether funds for a rescue package will ever be disbursed. Also in the programme, following a devastating fire in the Grenfell Tower in London, which took 72 lives, the BBC's Sarah Corker reports on the financial and emotional impact that replacement of the type of exterior cladding used at Grenfell, and implicated in the fire, has had on people living in similar tower blocks all over the UK. Plus, with many people stuck at home during the pandemic, there has been a sharp rise in sales of DIY products this year. Kaitlin Madden edits Real Homes magazine in the US, and talks us through the sort of projects that people are undertaking.

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