All I see in the news is Hungary being a thorn in the side of the EU. Why can’t they just kick Hungary out of the EU?
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EU is based on a treaty. This treaty doesn’t provide any legal way to expel a country from the EU. There is (article 7) a way to suspend some rights of an EU member and (article 50) for a member to leave by its own will (used by UK).
The procedures of suspension are slow and require unanimity. There is also the strategy of “peacock dance” employed by politicians like Orban and Kaczyński where they will offer some compromise when the situation gets too hot. Still, however, some sanctions were imposed against both Poland (suspending the payment of post-covid recovery plan) and against Hungary.
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