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BBC: Hungary and Poland lose their court challenge to EU rule that allows billions of euros of funding to be conditional on democratic standards.

Posted by mud Feb 16 '22, 05:12

"The European Court of Justice ruled that complying with rule of law was a condition of enjoying membership of the EU.

Governments in Hungary and Poland have been widely accused of backsliding on standards in recent years."

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1493919642418622470 (twitter.com)

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I love the balls of them suggesting that the EU was obligated to subsidize their authoritarian rule. -- nm - Mop Feb 16, 06:21 1
- But also, fuck them. I've been worried about Hungary and Poland and either way, this changes things. - Mop Feb 16, 06:22
I was going to say we're next but then I remembered (the horror). -- nm - LMS Feb 16, 05:26 1
- :-[ -- nm - mud Feb 16, 05:30

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