Bad decision: why Hungary’s potential exit from the European Union is not beneficial for this organization

Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the EU Arnoldas Pranckevičius wrote on Facebook that Hungary should leave the European Union. However, then he deleted the message.

Political scientist Andrei Vigirinsky commented on this statement 24 Channel. According to him, the exit of any member country from the EU will only weaken the organization.

“Today it seems to Lithuania that Hungary is doing the wrong thing. Hungary seems to be doing the wrong thing by Bulgaria, which is raising the tax on hydrocarbon transit from Russia in the direction of Hungary. Then someone in France will wake up and say that, in principle, they don’t really like Portugal either. And In general, things didn’t work out very well with the Germans,” Vigirinsky said sarcastically. drink coffee” or providing additional financial assistance.

What options exist

An EU member state that acts contrary to the principles of the organization can be deprived of the opportunity to vote on foreign policy issues. But this may lead to such a side effect as a refusal to implement decisions made, in particular regarding sanctioned countries.

Then the ability The EU's influence on the world through the financial, insurance, and industrial systems will decrease. If you begin to conduct foreign policy separately, then you will conduct economic policy separately. This means you are falling apart,” Vigirinsky stated.

Hungary creates problems: latest news

• Despite the decision of the European Council to begin negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU, Hungary may use a “hard veto”. Budapest will resort to this if the negotiations cause it “damage.”
• In addition, Hungary vetoed 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine. EU countries will be able to return to this issue as early as January 2024.
• At the same time, Viktor Orban is not against financial support for Ukraine, but only in the short term. Funds for long periods, they say, need to be sought outside the EU budget.