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.
EU really needs a way to kick out members. Hungary doesn’t care about EU.
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.
Nah, orban would kust cramp down on power more if the EU laws and regulations were removed.
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.
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.
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.
Le penalize him!
I see what you did there
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
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
Well it was only a matter of time. Keep voting in Poo-tin’s interests and the shit will inevitably hit the Orfán.
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?
They are not withholding all funding.
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.