• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I suspect this is coordinated with the rest of the EU.

    Hungary and Serbia were notoriously not cooperating with the sanctions regime, so this is probably the alternative legal solution.

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      1 year ago

      Is it really “not cooperating” if you’re just not in the block in the first place?

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        1 year ago

        They’re taking a few billion in aid from the EU on their path to joining so I think cooperating is a good term here.

        Block bloc

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        Unfortunately for the EU, Hungary is part of of block.

        Regarding Serbia, if you’re applying, you should behave like a perfect member. Croatia and Estonia are notoriously known to have implemented EU directive as candidates, before the directive were even voted.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, applied 15 years ago, with the current status of “in a decade, maybe”. It’s just funny how after 4 years of “no more enlargement, EU’s full, structural reform first” suddenly everyone’s pretending like Serbia was on the cusp of membership instead of basically being Turkey 2.