The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... can’t simply cut off the rotten bit, either. There is no mechanism to eject a state from the EU, nor should there be one. The Copenhagen Dilemma was ignored precisely because no-one considered it a vaguely realistic scenario. There is one, only one tool ... ... we have what we have and this is what we operate with, the Brussels institutions seem to have concluded. The report by Rui Tavares on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary, passed by Parliament two weeks ago, admits to the scope of the issue ...