The conservatives of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz and their likely center-left coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), have agreed to demand the bloc withhold funds and suspend voting rights from countries that violate key principles such as the rule of law, according to a draft coalition agreement seen by POLITICO.
While Hungary wasn’t mentioned by name, the draft agreement is clearly referring to the EU’s worst offender, which for years has been accused of taking a wrecking ball to democratic norms, curtailing the freedom of the press and restricting the independence of judges.
Well it was only a matter of time. Keep voting in Poo-tin’s interests and the shit will inevitably hit the Orfán.
EU really needs a way to kick out members. Hungary doesn’t care about EU.
Nah – withdrawing voting rights and funding suffices. Perhaps remove the right for citizens to freely move within the EU as well. You need sticks and carrots, not only sticks.
I don’t think any eastern European country does.
They care about the EU money quite a lot, not so much the ideology.
I stand by the training that if a county would fall below the standards that are required to enter the EU, procedures should start to expell them.
That’s all well and good, but the Geman car manufacturing industry liked the whole setup before Orbán became a problem. You are not fighting against Hungarians here, you are fighting European big business, especially German big business.
If you are looking for the receipts for how this went so wrong, look no further than Angela Merkel.
Volkswagen would have to get all their engines through customs if Hungary got kicked out, and they have a bigger say in EU policy than you, or the whole of the NL for that matter. It’s not good that this is like this, but we are all victims here.
Except at least Budapest has been protesting this for 15 years, while the wider EU populace has been content for their money to get stolen to oppress Hungary. Most of Hungary is more on board with European values than the Netherlands by the way.
We need to care about Hungary and the Hungarian people. Kick out Orban!
If Hungary is kicked out, maybe the Hungarian people will finally turn on Orban.
Hungarian people in general have already turned on Orbán, mostly because the infinite money the EU was funding his propaganda machine with was disturbed.
Orbán has broken down Hungarian society with the help of Merkel in exchange for the complete destruction of Hungarian worker’s protections to help the German car industry. The Hungarian people are victims here, the perpetrator is Orbán, but the weapon was all EU funded due to German diplomacy.
Nah, orban would kust cramp down on power more if the EU laws and regulations were removed.
Best they can do right now is make their presence in the EU hell with whatever measures they have. Either they’ll start acting right or they’ll fucking leave. Hungary’s residents don’t seem to want to get rid of Orban or his crew. They have a chance in 2026 with Peter Magyar, but my expectations are very low.
wait is he really named “Peter Hungarian”?
Magyar translates to Hungarian? Deepl says it translates to “English” :O
No, it means both like in English. It is not an uncommon surname either.
like in english? i don’t think i follow
It means both as in both Hungarian the nationality and Hungarian the language?
Like in English: “The English speak English”.
Gott strafe Orban!
I’d be fine with a fighter jet strafing him thanks
Why are you appropriating WWI-era Imperial German slogans?
Absolute banger of a slogan
Le penalize him!
I see what you did there
Something needs to be done, indeed.
May a thousand steel fists rain down upon him.
Took me a while not to read that as
The time has come to punish Orbán (and) Germany’s next(, some) government says
What realistially can EU and Germany do?
EU is already withholding funding, although they have to pay Hungary every time they have to pass something in EU.
Do they even have the vote to suspend voting rights when they have Slovak PM going crazy as well?
If Orbán gets “sanctioned” maybe Slovakia will start to think twice about biting the hand that feeds it. And if they also continue to push the Russian agenda then we’ll have an established protocol to deal with them.
They are not withholding all funding.
