Viktor Orban - the EU's own Slobodan Milosevic?

This is an interesting topic but my god, I'm getting a headache reading that post

Hungary should be shown the exit door the the EU. They act against European Interests, promote Russian points of view, they have voted repeatedly (unless I'm mistaken including majority of expats) for this Turd.

They should have been shown the door long ago. A country this toxic and corrupt has no business being in the EU.

The warning we should listen to about EU expansion. Plenty of the proposed new members will cause similar or worse problems. Just withdraw all EU funding from them, they don't even use the currency so can't impact that much.

RTE news : Orbán criticises Taoiseach after 'abuse of vetoes' quote

http://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0512/1512446-hungary-ireland/

Orban is right, we need to be careful blindly cheering on the entry of Ukraine to the EU. The veteos are there for a reason and were hard fought for to protect the smaller nations. Martin parrots everything the EU says, he needs to remember, in the grand scheme of things, we are a tiny insignificant island on the west of Europe, the EU will and do use us as they see fit.

Exactly Serbia makes Orban look liberal. Not to mention all the tension with Kosovo. Kosovo another one, a very fragile state with real ethnic tension, there's no benefit having them in the EU.

I suppose it is my frustration with this situation showing (it is going on for a decade I think, and growing steadily more serious) but have been thinking maybe the Council members should just start voting on Article 7, even if there are countries that will pipe up to back Hungary and veto.

Let us (Joe Public citizen of EU member states) all see who the pro Russia and pro "MAGA" rats and traitors inside the union are and have their names down on the public record as repeatedly vetoing EU level action against Orbán/Hungary.

Every time the Council meets, force them to vote for carrying on the corruption + allowing Orbán to continue robbing non Hungarian EU citizens blind, while he laughs at us + acts as a stalking horse for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump inside the EU.

We (Ireland/Irish people) don't know what truly being "used" (and abused) as a country is, or haven't since the 19C anyway.

Fact that we're an "insignificant island" as you put it (with a more populous neighbour who could find uses for our resources natural and human in future) is probably why people like us should pray rules based cooperative institutions like the EU survive this time + the wreckers and spoilers like Orbán don't destroy them.

If they succeed and the EU fails hard in the coming years, things could get nasty and brutish in Europe again IMO

We live in a warming, highly politically unstable world where dictators are on the rise, weapons of mass destruction are proliferating, and conquest + genocide seem to be back on the menu as tools that leaders of a country can use to get what they want.