cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/32712724
Hungary launched an anti-EU campaign featuring Zelenskyy and EU leaders, vetoes Ukraine military aid, blocks declarations, and spreads disinformation about Ukrainian migrants.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/20/eu-considers-stripping-hungary-of-voting-rights-over-ukraine-obstruction/
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Do it already! It’s way overdue.
Finally. I hope this will be more than just a intent or “threat”
Only 19 of the 26 countries are on board. It’ll need more work to get a unanimous vote. But with Romania being pro-Russia and having Hungary’s back, that’s not happening. The most likely thing to happen is making the membership of Hungary in the EU useless or a net negative to them. For example if all EU funds were blocked, Hungary would have a huge problem.
Hungary would not have a problem. Orban would. Hungary is seeing none of those EU bribes.
EVERYTHING in hungary is built of the leftovers of the EU money
Those little breadcrums that Orbán and his entourage don’t steal are everything
I’m pretty sure missing billions of euros to invest businesses and Hungarian infrastructure would be a problem for Hungary.
Billions of euros which end up in the hands of a few cronies.
turns out building your supranational union on the basis of unanonimous votes for everything was a shit idea if you ever wanted to get anything done as that supranational union. Who’d’ve thunk it
Hungary should be stripped of its right of EU membership alongside its voting right by not complying to is obligation as an ICC member
I guess you are only allowed to vote for as long as you vote for what/who you are told to vote for
If everyone else votes the same except you, then your opinion IS less valuable.
If you keep doing that over and over on important issues just to blockade everything, others will get annoyed with you. Especially if you play into the hands of imperialist countries like Russia.
Every democracy in the world works on the basis of majority votes, not unanimous. Why should the EU be different?
Whats the point of voting something if you can only vote what someone else wants?
What’s the point of voting if one vote can completely invalidate the massive majoritys vote?
If thats how it works, thats how it works
Then that is also the reply to your question.
It looks like theyre supposed to have a right to vote whatever they understand that they should vote. The fact that they are banned when they do so seems contradictory
It does not, considering the suspension of voting rights is a process every member has agreed to existing.
A member state who goes rogue, who acts in the interest of foreign nations and not in the interest of the collective can, should and must have its voting rights suspended. The protection and continued existence of the union takes precedence over any individual nation’s voting rights.
There is no contradiction here. Suspending voting rights exists explicitly because there is no right to vote for whatever you want.
There is no contradiction here. Suspending voting rights exists explicitly because there is no right to vote for whatever you want.
Whats even the point of voting then?
To see what the majority of voters want, not pander to one or two of them only.
To arrive at a mutual consensus. That’s what the point of voting has always been.
Suspending a malicious actor’s voting rights does not violate this. In fact, it is required to do so. See the paradox of tolerance which goes into some more detail.
