Hungary No Longer a Democracy – Freedom House

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/06/hungary-no-longer-a-democracy-report-239807

by goose847 • 6 years ago

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mullen• 6 years ago

Expel them from the EU and NATO. Europe must take a hardline on this or other countries will follow Poland and Hungry's path.

favorited4• 6 years ago

It takes a unanimous vote to admit or expel a country (minus one in the case of expelling), IIUC. The EU couldn't kick Hungary out because Poland wouldn't support it.

It's the same reason a theoretical independent Scotland wouldn't be admitted – there's no way that Spain would want precedent set that a country can split off and then rejoin the EU.

eli_gottlieb• 6 years ago

So the more corrupt and undemocratic the European Union gets, the more constrained the remaining democratic members are from acting on it?

Who came up with that structure?

jka• 6 years ago

That has been a common and reasonable understanding of Spain's veto potential for a while; that said, their foreign minister has indicated otherwise:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/02/spain-drops...

jobigoud• 6 years ago

No, I'm pretty sure none of the countries under consideration for being expelled can vote on the decision about the others. I don't have the ref right now as I'm on mobile but this has been discussed before.

Hungary No Longer a Democracy – Freedom House

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