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Weapons to Ukraine: Hungary Furious at EU for Breaking Rules
The EU has agreed to use the profits of frozen Russian assets for buying weapons but is doing so without Hungary’s consent.
The EU has agreed to use the profits of frozen Russian assets for buying weapons but is doing so without Hungary’s consent.
Foreign Affairs Minister pushes for ‘nuclear option’ against the conservative country before it takes over EU Presidency
What Baerbock is advocating in the name of freedom and democracy would be the single biggest shift away from true democratic principles in the history of EU reforms.
The EU-funded group used scaremongering over Russia to further its power-grabbing agenda, implicitly targeting member states’ sovereignty.
‘Plan B’ would allow other member states to circumvent Hungary’s veto.
Foreign ministers meeting in Berlin could also be open to a more à la carte-type of integration before Ukraine and others join the bloc.
It was always hard to pursue national interests with respect to common EU foreign policy. Some countries would like to make it impossible.
Replacing unanimity with qualified majority voting would only benefit Western Europe, leaving smaller member states without the ability to protest the potential rise of a centralized EU super army.
Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, an Italian diplomat who formerly served as a European Commissioner, has argued that—contrary to popular belief—in order to revise the European Union’s system of treaties, just 14 of the 27 European Union member states, a simple majority, would need to support the initiative.
The debate comes at a particularly sensitive time, when the question of applying new sanctions against Russia is coming up against the objections of three European states, including Hungary. The proposal to generalise qualified majority voting is far from unanimous among European states.
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