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Originally Posted by Hugh
Pretty sure saving 17 billion euros a year will adversely affect Poland and Hungary more than the EU saving that amount…
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A potential saving of 17 Billion Euros a year would be a nice windfall for the EU . . but only if they can remove Hungary & Poland from it.
A snippet from my link in a post above, it's quite funny in a way, and the part in bold is like icing on the cake
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For more meaningful effect, the EU could resort to a sanction mechanism known as Article 7, to address serious and persistent breaches of EU values, including the rule of law, democracy and the respect for human dignity and human life. This could lead to removing voting rights for the offending country. Both Hungary and its close ally, Poland, which is also engaging in a degree of democratic backsliding of its own, have faced the Article 7 process, but ironically, it is EU rules themselves which have prevented the EU from taking any meaningful action, as sanctions require a unanimous agreement from EU states. Hungary and Poland simply veto their respective cases to look after each other. There is also, bizarrely, no mechanism to kick out an EU member state against its will and, therefore, little incentive for Hungary to change its win-win formula.
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