Twelve countries have already backed the initiative, with repeated obstruction by Viktor Orbán's Hungary increasingly fuelling calls for reform. #EuropeNews
It’s a fair point. It’s also much easier to be all Billy Big-Balls “just kick them out” when it’s Hungary - but what about when Germany elects AfD or France elects Le Pen; do we kick them out too?
A federation of democracies needs to be resilient to the fact that democracies don’t always elect people we like. Kicking members out every time that happens is not reslience, it’s a deathwish.
If the EU is taken over by fascists, because that is likely to happen if we remove all the guardrails and wait for one of the big countries to elect AfD/FN etc, then yes that is a deathwish 🤦
It’s a fair point. It’s also much easier to be all Billy Big-Balls “just kick them out” when it’s Hungary - but what about when Germany elects AfD or France elects Le Pen; do we kick them out too?
A federation of democracies needs to be resilient to the fact that democracies don’t always elect people we like. Kicking members out every time that happens is not reslience, it’s a deathwish.
If the EU is taken over by fascists, because that is likely to happen if we remove all the guardrails and wait for one of the big countries to elect AfD/FN etc, then yes that is a deathwish 🤦