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FTFY 'We won't be dragged into this' — famously pro-Russia Hungary opposes $22 billion EU aid package for Ukraine
Time to swap Hungary for Canada ..
Hungary is not a net contributor to the EU, you ain't funding shit you're being funded.
You should lose your vote of you don't contribute, gives incentive to actually build your economy...
Relax, satan; that would be coercion. Hungary is very aware they can and have been penalized by acting like this by having funds whitheld.
We can argue it is coercion as well and I will agree but it was on the damn treaty when they signed to join the EU. Don't want it? Uphold the treaty.
Keep whining Orban, your days are numbered! You will lose the next election and you will face justice you fucking ugly fat cunt.
Just kick them out of the union then, you want to stand with Russia, fuck off and see how much they're willing to support you while their economy tanks
Maybe a temporary suspension, give them the option to learn their lesson and rejoin.
they can follow the onboarding process again. After Ukraine clears.
People are already protesting there, so suspending would make more sense.
Is it even technically possible in the current state of EU to kick and suspend membership of one of the country?
I think they need to all vote in favour for it to work, so I doubt they would vote for their own ban?
Article 7 exists. It allows to suspend voting rights of a member state, if all other members vote for that. So far the EU is hesitant to use it, but as I see it, it is about damn time.
So far Article 7 hasn't been used because Poland had Hungary's back. Given that Poland is no longer ruled by the right-populist PiS, that might no longer hold, though.
I hope not, but now Slovakia might jump in instead though.
We all know they won't be dragged in and can't be dragged in because they're already fully involved, just on the wrong side
Hungary? You mean Russia light?
This. Every trick Orbán used is straight from Putin. After he fully seized power in Russia, authoritarians the world over flocked to Moscow to learn directly from the master. Then they went home and got to work. The Danube Institute, the Hungarian equivalent of the Heritage Foundation, hosted a large neoreactionary conference where they laid out the case that democracy doesn't work. That democracy is a well-meaning but fundamentally flawed system of government. The reason they think it's flawed? Because it requires giving all people equality under the law. Women equal to men, gay equal to straight, non-Christian equal to Christian, Non-white equal to White, and this is really the only one that matters, poor equal to wealthy. The obscenely wealthy cannot comprehend a world in which the voice of those with less wealth is equal to their voice. By virtue of their enormous fortunes, taken through exploitation and inherited from their ancestors, they feel that they and they alone should have the right to govern. That they are inherently superior because they were fortunate enough to be born into lives of wealth, connection, and privilege.
Traitors and Putin puppets. Disgusting.
We won't be dragged into this? Well they don't get to make that choice. Russia already dragged everyone into this when they invaded a sovereign nation. You can't really claim indifference to an invasion, that's the same as condoning it. I agree with a lot of other people on this thread. Suspend them until they prove their moral compass aligns with ours. Now they're just working to hinder our democracy
Just time to turn off the money to the corrupt crook that is Orban. Gtfo of EU until you get your shit together
A fool to not see they're already in it.
I oppose Hungary