But since the first emergency covid package we do have a method to withhold that sweet, sweet EU funding, and we have been using it to increasingly good effect. We need to do more of this and more often instead of just threatening.
It does not require a unanimous vote which is why it works. This is literally the only good thing the Dutch PM ever pushed in his entire life (and he probably stood to make some money out of it ...somehow).
While I agree, it somehoe feels dirty. Blackmail through finance will probably always work, but carrying the sentiment from my other comment - I feel like it will backfire at some point, on some other issue.
I'm from Poland and agree fully with the title. There needs to be more that EU can do.
Yeah, there is a way: Every democratic EU country could join a completely new Union - leaving Poland and Hungary out. And then dissolve the old union.
Meh. That's not a solution. That's a workaround. These never pay out in the long run.