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I always hear Hungary fucking everything up, why not boot them from the union at this point? They clearly are an actor for a hostile nation, so there's no need to deal with their bullshit.
There is no mechanism for removing a member state from the EU other than a voluntary exit.
And as long as Hungary is getting any kind of monetary benefits from the EU, which Orban can steal, he won't pull such a move.
Also his handlers in Moscow might find him more valuable in the EU than outside, so they likely would object to that.
Maybe we could suspend their membership removing privileges and voting rights, while Hungary is investigated for compliance of EU regulations on for instance their freedom of speech, courts and democracy.
It's not that easy. This can be abused. Countries joined because the EU had limited power.
The US has broken the power of its states by threatening to withhold federal funding. The EU is starting to copy that. How does the EU make sure that we don't copy Trump, too?
False equivalence. EU is not controlled by a single president, for such actions there would have to be a near unanimous agreement among the other member states.
So the comparison would be if for instance 45 states agreed to take away privileges from one state in USA, instead of just 1 president, that may not even have won by a majority vote.
There's a difference between a decision made in a democracy that respect minorities (EU), and a decision made by a president that is granted excessive powers in a dysfunctional democracy.
That's how the US started. Still, legally, the president cannot change laws. It was normalized under Obama to get around this with executive orders.
It's a development. If we step on that slippery slope, we should know in advance that we stop before it is too late. And above all, we should not assume that it can't happen in the EU.
Obama made the least number of executive orders of any president for more than a century. So I seriously doubt he normalized them in any regard.
Also a slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope