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Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by IshKebab on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:33PM (#47523577)
I wonder what it would take to expel them from the EU...
Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by wolvoleo on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:56PM (#47524981)
It's simply not possible. EU law has no provisions for kicking a malignant country out. It was simply not foreseen. They can only decide to leave themselves. Which orban will never do because his oligarchs make billions off EU subsidies.

If it were it would have happened already.

Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by jiggawatts on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @08:55PM (#47525449)
EU2: the no-Hungary club
Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by wisplike on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:34AM (#47527251)
Order is on the verge of breakdown I wouldn't be surprised if they just lose their voice/get kicked out.

Trump etc are tearing down international order. The ramifications of this will be decades long.

Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by rcbdev on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:37AM (#47527269)
They cannot make them leave the EU, no. But Hungary can be:

- kicked out of the Schengen Treaty

- kicked out of the NATO

- fined under EU breach of contract proceedings

- withheld financial support as long as they do not pay these fines

- forced through customs policy, which is sole EU competence, to stop compensating lost EU support with Chinese money

Honestly, I'd be in full support of some above listed actions if the elections in April show the current will of the Hungarian people misaligned with shared EU values.

Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by wolvoleo on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:01PM (#47534308)
They do regularly withhold financial support for them, but it doesn't seem to be too effective, usually they just get it back in return for not crossing the EU on some other topic.

I do think we should make work of kicking them out somehow if Peter Magyar does not win the next elections indeed.

Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by IshKebab on Thursday March 26, 2026 @06:11AM (#47528586)
It's not possible with the current rules. Ultimately if every EU country other than Turkey wants them out, what are they going to do?
Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by okanat on Thursday March 26, 2026 @11:07AM (#47531427)
Turkey isn't EU.
Re:The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos by wolvoleo on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:02PM (#47534318)
No, they could have been but Erdogan made that impossible, sadly.