Re: Poland & Hungary Threaten Veto to EU Stimulus Package
Besides the budget the EU has unresolved problems, often long-standing, with:
* Migration (no more needs saying.)
* CAP reform.
* A climate agenda and meeting climate promises.
* Poor performance with emerging technologies - a great example being that the EU has no Google alternative; no Facebook alternative; no Amazon alternative; etc. etc. etc. - and (worse) current policies do not encourage such innivation within the EU.
* Tackling the recession post-covid: the EU has been slower to recover than others (including the UK) in the past & policies haven't changed enough to suggest that this time around will be any different.
* Corruption. A longstanding issue with the EU, the Eastern European members have seen corruption there highlighted along with the sale of EU passports/citizenship in various members, cross-border vat fraud and much more.
* An increasing East/West and even North/South divide(s) seeing factions (like Hungary & Poland) joining forces to influence EU policymaking and decisions.
There's lots more too but - well - I don't want to start people seeing my posts and immediately going "TLDR".
For those genuinely interested you could do worse than look into the Euro and how banking in the EU is doing.
No, the EU isn't about to implode (though who knows? It might.) - but so many problems just keep being kicked down the road which cannot be put off forever.
Something has to give, before long too I suspect.
So I think we will see major reforms within the EU before much longer.