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
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Do it already! It’s way overdue.
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
Every democracy in the world works on the basis of majority votes, not unanimous. Why should the EU be different?
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.
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.
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.
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?
