Should the EU sanction member countries with authoritarian governments?

Yes but don't overly sanction, just make it clear that those governments are bad and remove some privileges.

No because most EU countries use the Euro so if you sanction an EU state that uses the Euro as well as you you do then you're doing damage to your own economy as the Euro using nations have a "shared economy" where if inflation in one Euro using state goes up, then all the other countries that use the Euro will also see an increase in inflation.

It depends… probably not as this will most likely encourage said country to remove further ties with EU

I do not understand.

Depends on the will of the people in said country. IF the EU were to offer a vote of no confidence to residents of the affected country and it was deemed the people do not want their government, then the EU could look into sanctions to "encourage" further democratisation of the member state.

Yes, but the sanctions should be carried out in a way that would not worsen our future relations with any countries that might come out of authoritarian governments.

Depends on how well the economy is doing/how well the people are being treated

Only sanction governments that commit human rights abuse.

Who decides what is authoritarian- we in Uk are lied to and manipulated rather than clear force - coercive control rather than brute force !

I think every country should be looked at differently.

I think they should be less inclined to help them

Only if they are very very extreme and harmful to their citizens or a danger to other countries

Depends on the requirements to be defined as authoritarian

Depends on whether they have broken international law or EU law that requires sanctions.

Yes, democracy should be protected and advocated for in all circumstances

yes as well as remove them from the EU if they refuse to adjust their behaviour

Autocratic countries shouldn’t be allowed to join the EU

Autocratic governments should not be allowed to join the EU

Do not allow countries who are not liberal democracies into the EU

Provided the assessment is made/agreed upon by systems outside of the EU as well as the EU, yes.

Why are they in the EU to begin with if they have authoritarian regimes?

Yes, if the quality of their authoritarianism is sufficiently severe.

Don’t understand too much about this so I can’t really comment

No, Countries with authoritarian government should not be in the EU

No, the term authoritarian is too broad

Abolish the EU Let individual countries sanction authoritarian governments

We've left the EU. It's none of our business.

It is not down to the European Union to decide who is Good, and who is bad.

The word “sanction” has two opposite meanings. It is sometimes used to mean “endorse”, and it is sometimes used to mean “enact measures like trade embargos, etc.”. The EU should not endorse authoritarian governments. The EU should strongly discourage authoritarian governments. More intelligent people than me should be carefully considering when it is appropriate to enact things like trade embargos against authoritarian governments.

Up to the individual countries

Don’t know enough about it.

If it doesn’t threaten the UK then No

No, provided they have been democratically elected

Depends on how authoritarian is defined

if they are doing bad things in or out of country

Only until a certain point of authoritarianism

Yes but not with any form of violence.

Yes but only once and should not make the final decision of what happens to the country.

I not know enough about this topic

do not know about this topic

If the regime is causing harm

Yes, but only to the degree that their authoritarianism harms their people or violates European values.

Allow nations within the EU who have different governments from another to thrive as they wish, you should not force and make a nation change their ways just for being authoritarian.

The EU should sanction for inhumane actions under the government, but not the government itself

No, if they are democratically elected