EU was ready to take away Hungarys veto rights if it had not conceded on issue of Ukraine accession talks
EU was ready to take away Hungarys veto rights if it had not conceded on issue of Ukraine accession talks
Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, claims that 26 EU member states were considering depriving Hungary of its right to veto had it blocked the decision to start negotiations with Ukraine.
So keep them in EU but take away their veto rights 🤔 Didn’t knew there was an option like that.
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.
Why not making it simpler, and NOT keeping them in EU? Feels like we wouldn't miss much.
The source they're citing is a single person that's not likely to be impartial.
That doesn't change that the option is on the table and has been for years. It's it the EU's de-facto constitution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_7_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union
Identifying the breach requires unanimity (excluding the state concerned), but sanctions require only a qualified majority.
Wait, how does this work? Can sanctions be instated without identifying a country as being in breach? Or is unanimity first required, and only after that, the majority can decide what the sanction is?