ANALYSIS – Hungary has vetoed several foreign policy issues. A maneuver that weakens the messages of the European Union.
The questioning of unanimity is a sea serpent for the EU. It resurfaced recently, as a member state – Hungary – vetoed Beijing’s condemnation of the crackdown on the democratic movement in Hong Kong, and then a call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, at the same time weakening the messages of the Union and conveying the image of a bloc incapable of forming a common front on matters of foreign policy. As soon as it comes to China or Russia, achieving unanimity becomes a way of the cross. Unless the powers in question really do their part in provocations, as was the case with the imprisonment of Alexey Navalny after his stay in Berlin.
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To hear some, it would be enough to put an end to what Yves Bertoncini, president of the European Movement, calls “the Trojan horse unanimity of external powers»And to come to a qualified majority (55% of countries representing 65% of the population). “We can not
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