Mon Oct 10, 2022 – 9:30 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — With the EU announcing the eighth round of sanctions on Russia, attention may have slipped from the fact that it is also sanctioning its own states. Both Poland and Hungary have been disciplined by the EU under the serious charge of undermining democratic values, with the EU threatening to cut Hungary’s budget by 7.5 billion euros in November.
To understand what these “values” are, and the penalties for failing to celebrate them, go back to September 2015, when the European Parliament first discussed taking Article Seven proceedings against Hungary and then Poland. The process seeks to identify whether there has been a ‘“a clear risk of a serious breach’ of the EU’s common values” in these countries. Initially a concern over these “common values,” the charges are now that Hungary and Poland no longer support the rule of law.
Article seven provides for placing economic sanctions on member states and suspending their voting rights. It is intended to isolate them economically and silence them diplomatically. Article Seven, whose history can be read here, is effectively a means of cancelling countries from the former Soviet bloc whose
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