Should the EU sanction member countries with authoritarian governments?

@9M62NM2AnswersForeign policyEU Authoritarian Sanctions11mos ago

No!

The EU should not be trusted to be arbiters of what constitutes an authoritarian government. The EU was instigated as nothing more than a protectionist trading bloc and it should have never been allowed the right to interfere with sovereign national constitutional issues in member states.

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