From: New Voice of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Belgian Foreign Minister, Hadja Lahbib, urges on the EU countries to consider moving ahead with depriving Hungary of voting rights in the EU due to Budapest’s obstructions on Ukraine military aid and imposing sanctions on Russia, Politico reported.
Belgium advocates advancing the EU’s Article 7 censure procedure applied to Hungary, the publication wrote.
Article 7 of EU Treaty allows for the possibility of suspending European Union (EU) membership rights (such as voting rights in the Council of the European Union) if a country seriously and persistently breaches the principles on which the EU is founded as defined in Article 2 (respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities).
” “We have a Europe that is making difficult headway, with unfortunately some states — one state in particular — increasingly adopting a transactional, blocking and veto attitude,” she told Politico.
“I think we should have the courage to make a decision whether to go to the end of Article 7, to activate Article 7 to the end, which provides for the the right of veto termination.”
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