Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with me, Ijoma Unducke.

As always, we'll take you around the world.

We'll look at why India keeps blocking Chinese mobile apps

and what this tells us about the relationship between the Asian giants.

Plus, we'll hear about a study revealing

that pharmaceutical drugs are causing dangerous pollution in many of the world's rivers. But first,

let's turn our attention to the row between the European Union on one side and Poland and Hungary on the

other. Europe's highest court has ruled that the EU can

suspend funding to member states that violate the bloc's democratic values. This could see the two

nations losing billions of dollars of support, funds that would help to rebuild their economies

after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Judges at the European Court of Justice dismissed a challenge by Poland and Hungary.

Here's a spokeswoman for the European Commission President Erzler von der Leyen on the ruling.

The president welcomed the judgments and said very clearly that the court upholds the legality

of this important tool that enables us to protect better the EU budget and the financial

interests of the European Union against breaches of the principles of the rule of law.

We are setting a timeline ahead, which is that in the following weeks,

we will adopt the guidelines to provide further clarity as to the way that we will implement this mechanism in practice.

The two countries affected are led by right-wing nationalist governments,

and both have challenged the EU stance on judicial independence, immigration and LGBTQ plus rights.

Here's Poland's Prime Minister, Mateoz Moraviyetsky, who says it's an attack on its sovereignty.

Centralization of the EU's structures is a dangerous process. Centralization of the EU structures is a dangerous process.

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