This article seems to assume that treaty reform entails scrapping the unanimity requirement.
There is an alternative (which also requires treaty reform), which is that unanimity stays but that all rights (voting, veto, funding) are contingent on responsibilities (to meet the accession requirements and directives at all times). This solves the problem of democratic backsliding, since if you backslide into a polity that doesn’t meet the standards, you can no longer block everyone else or hold them to ransom.
Hungary will block the shit out of any reform. And if it isn’t Hungary, it’s Poland. And if it isn’t Poland, it’s another anti-EU country.
This EU is doomed to fail, because it has shithole countries in it not living up to its values.
Hungary is becoming an autocracy.
The EU does nothing, really nothing about it.
Enlargement, my ass. The last thing the EU needs, is more corrupt, shithole countries.
Enlargement?
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The EU should not become more powerful without becoming more democratic. Having an EC president that nobody knew or voted for and a bunch of EC members that couldn’t win elections against retarded apes is not exactly what I call democratic accountability.
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This article seems to assume that treaty reform entails scrapping the unanimity requirement.
There is an alternative (which also requires treaty reform), which is that unanimity stays but that all rights (voting, veto, funding) are contingent on responsibilities (to meet the accession requirements and directives at all times). This solves the problem of democratic backsliding, since if you backslide into a polity that doesn’t meet the standards, you can no longer block everyone else or hold them to ransom.
Hungary will block the shit out of any reform. And if it isn’t Hungary, it’s Poland. And if it isn’t Poland, it’s another anti-EU country.
This EU is doomed to fail, because it has shithole countries in it not living up to its values.
Hungary is becoming an autocracy.
The EU does nothing, really nothing about it.
Enlargement, my ass. The last thing the EU needs, is more corrupt, shithole countries.
Enlargement?
Something such as +10cm in a week click here to order yours?
The EU should not become more powerful without becoming more democratic. Having an EC president that nobody knew or voted for and a bunch of EC members that couldn’t win elections against retarded apes is not exactly what I call democratic accountability.