• syd@lemy.lol
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    11 months ago

    So keep them in EU but take away their veto rights 🤔 Didn’t knew there was an option like that.

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      11 months ago

      Article 7 suspends their voting rights. Requires unanimity of all other EU members.

      It’s the closest EU charter allows to evicting a member state. It effectively suspends the state’s membership.

      Quite frankly the should have. Orban is a blatantly corrupt Putin lapdog who has been siphoning EU funds for years into his own pocket and that of his cronies.

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        11 months ago

        Hungary used to have a mutual defence pact with PiS-era Poland that scuppered any attempts by the EU to discipline either country. Not that PiS are no longer in power in Poland, hasn’t Fico’s Slovakia stepped into the role?

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          Nope, because Orban’s party denies the legitimacy of Slovakia as an independent state via their grievance culture over the Treaty of Trianon

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        11 months ago

        Have we ever been that close to taking them? I’m assuming he was warned and informed that next time it will happen.

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          11 months ago

          No, but until now, Poland and Hungary protected each other. Things might change now.

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              Slovakia, I don’t know, but the Netherlands not really. The one party that might want to veto it, while the biggest in parliament, only (“only”) got 20% of the votes. If they get to govern (which is not set in stone yet), they’ll have to do so in a coalition with other parties who would not let that happen.

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              11 months ago

              And Italy, why are we left out? 🤌🤌🤌 Italy is part of the “family” too, with the Nederlands, Slovakia, Hungary… and the UK of course!