This is simply false. There exist the option to kick states out. Quite explicitly for states that don’t follow the commonly agreed human rights standards and legal procedures.
Removing countries from the EU is not considered desirable. A country having a couple rough years shouldn’t erode that.
Imagine USA getting yeeted out of NATO for electing some dumb fuck who will be gone in 4 years. Wouldn’t have been necessary in 2016 and would have increased the damage trump does in the second term.
A united world cannot split easily or you will get a divided world. You must work together. Banning, excluding and exiling does immense harm.
If they are existing members, they have already proven to fulfill the requirements. Hence it is theoretically easy for them to rejoin 🤷
Having a system where existing states can regress on vital criteria that were necessary to join with no real risk of expulsion just creates a system of impunity that enables veto abuse.
But clearly the problem isn’t the veto power, but that the system allows for such regression to happen in the first place.
Removing the veto power just enables for that impunity to fester and destroy the EU from within.
Nothing in the EU is easy, especially with the Veto power.
They will Veto anything that wants to remove them.
So the EU will literally have to disband to kick them out.
And if they wanted to rejoin, and the Veto was still in place, other countries would probably Veto them joining again.
I’m genuinely unsure if you have no idea what you’re talking about, or if you’re trolling or misguided, the Veto power is a big issue in the EU and is to a degree destroying it, because the EU can’t act unless literally everyone agrees.
You are literally quoting an article written by the pro-Orban and Orban allied oligarch owned Euronews that of course tries to sell the false narrative that Hungary can’t be kicked out.
You cannot easily join the union. Not can you divorce easily. That’s a many year process with significant changes and overhead. You need all commerce to adjust. You need travel to adjust. You need workers to adjust.
Leaving the EU was never baked in. Brexit was a Novum. As laws stand today you can only sanction them. And need all other countries to agree. This means if they have a single ally in another minor country this is not going to work.
Brexit was a novum sure, but mainly because they wanted to leave instead of being kicked out by the other members for which a process exists.
Edit: Partial correction: Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty existed since 2007 and makes provisions for voluntary withdraw from the EU. But it was afaik never applied before Brexit.
And in general, if you don’t want states to abuse their veto power you need to have something sufficiently painful for them as a consequence 🤷
This is simply false. There exist the option to kick states out. Quite explicitly for states that don’t follow the commonly agreed human rights standards and legal procedures.
Removing countries from the EU is not considered desirable. A country having a couple rough years shouldn’t erode that.
Imagine USA getting yeeted out of NATO for electing some dumb fuck who will be gone in 4 years. Wouldn’t have been necessary in 2016 and would have increased the damage trump does in the second term.
A united world cannot split easily or you will get a divided world. You must work together. Banning, excluding and exiling does immense harm.
They can easily rejoin when they get their act together and have strengthend their institutions to avoid this in the future.
Why should different standards count for existing members than those that want to join? That’s just hypocritical.
They can easily rejoin…
Brother what? You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about, or you’re trolling.
If they are existing members, they have already proven to fulfill the requirements. Hence it is theoretically easy for them to rejoin 🤷
Having a system where existing states can regress on vital criteria that were necessary to join with no real risk of expulsion just creates a system of impunity that enables veto abuse.
But clearly the problem isn’t the veto power, but that the system allows for such regression to happen in the first place.
Removing the veto power just enables for that impunity to fester and destroy the EU from within.
“Theoretically easy” lol.
Nothing in the EU is easy, especially with the Veto power.
They will Veto anything that wants to remove them. So the EU will literally have to disband to kick them out.
And if they wanted to rejoin, and the Veto was still in place, other countries would probably Veto them joining again.
I’m genuinely unsure if you have no idea what you’re talking about, or if you’re trolling or misguided, the Veto power is a big issue in the EU and is to a degree destroying it, because the EU can’t act unless literally everyone agrees.
The corresponding EU treaty article explicitly says that the country affected can’t veto it. Anything else would be obviously stupid.
Brother, stop talking Bullshit
https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/08/member-states-can-leave-the-eu-but-can-the-bloc-kick-one-of-them-out
Member states can leave the EU, but can the bloc kick one of them out?
The short answer is: no. The long answer is: it would take years of haggling and then most probably fail.
The reason is quite simple: The EU simply never planned for that possibility.
"Legally speaking, we don’t have the apparatus to expel a member state
You are literally quoting an article written by the pro-Orban and Orban allied oligarch owned Euronews that of course tries to sell the false narrative that Hungary can’t be kicked out.
You cannot easily join the union. Not can you divorce easily. That’s a many year process with significant changes and overhead. You need all commerce to adjust. You need travel to adjust. You need workers to adjust.
Leaving the EU was never baked in. Brexit was a Novum. As laws stand today you can only sanction them. And need all other countries to agree. This means if they have a single ally in another minor country this is not going to work.
Brexit was a novum sure, but mainly because they wanted to leave instead of being kicked out by the other members for which a process exists.
Edit: Partial correction: Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty existed since 2007 and makes provisions for voluntary withdraw from the EU. But it was afaik never applied before Brexit.
And in general, if you don’t want states to abuse their veto power you need to have something sufficiently painful for them as a consequence 🤷
https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/08/member-states-can-leave-the-eu-but-can-the-bloc-kick-one-of-them-out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_Union
There is no legislated way for expulsion I can find.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/suspension-clause-article-7-of-the-treaty-on-european-union.html
That’s not expulsion. That’s suspension.
Same thing different word 🤷
I don’t think it worth it arguing with them further, their knowledge of the EU seems to come from their imagination rather than facts