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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

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160 points cruzcampo | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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haunter ◴[11 Apr 25 08:46 UTC] No.43651714[source]▶
Hungary exist though, not just in Europe but in the EU. And it’s the perfect sample of what the GOP want to achieve in the long run.
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1. mathw ◴[11 Apr 25 09:01 UTC] No.43651842[source]▶
Hungary sadly shows us that the EU's defences against one of its own members going rogue are very poor. No doubt a relic of the idealism in which it was founded - we're all nice people, of course we're going to stay that way.

And also the pragmatism of not handing over too much control from national governments to the EU bodies.