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The EU faces a fundamental question: What is the price of belonging to it?
Five years after Greece nearly blew out of the euro zone, the European Union is again slipping into an existential crisis. The veto of the governments of Poland and Hungary against linking the rule of law to the payment of EU subsidies raises a fundamental question for the Union: What is the price of being a member?
If it were the rule of law, that is, if the other 25 allowed to be blackmailed by the national authoritarian governments of Budapest and Warsaw, the EU would have de facto abolished itself, at least of which it is particularly proud, that is, as a legal community. However, if the 25 stand their ground and insist that only those people who get money from Brussels do not misuse it to feed an entourage of political favorites, while scoffing at the common core values of the EU treaty as an ideological aberration , then you can Poland and Hungary. just show the way to the exit.
Polexit and Huxit would be fatal to the Union: politically, economically, culturally. The Hungarian-Polish ego trip puts the Union, from whose members derive enormous economic, political and social benefits, in a difficult situation. But just as Greece’s left populist government only came to its senses under the threat of Grexit, considerations about the isolation of Poland and Hungary are now necessary to break the nationalist madness. With persuasion and censorship one demonstrably achieves nothing.
