Is Turkey now joining the EU? No, but the EU is engaging (www.politico.eu)

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Careful EU, with how they are leveraging NATO I imagine they will try the same thing once in the EU. Is it as difficult to kick a country out of EU as it is to kick one out of NATO?

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, requires all member states to agree. Which sucks as EU would love to get rid of Poland and Hungary right about now.

EDIT: Replaced Romania with Hungary.

[-] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Why those 2 countries? Genuinely curious. Not in EU and I don't really know what's going on there.

[-] Rayleigh@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Both are far-right autocratic governments who gladly take EUs money, while blaming everything on EU (in Polands case especially Germany). Both block tons of important political decisions. Hungary is arguably a dictatorship with no free media outlets and questionable elections, Poland steers in the same direction. The widespread racism, antisemitism and homophobia are also a given.