> rejecting the Recovery Fund as currently proposed due to how strongly it ties EU countries together, inadvertently strengthening the position of authoritarian

> rejecting the Recovery Fund as currently proposed due to how strongly it ties EU countries together, inadvertently strengthening the position of authoritarian eastern countries like Hungary and Poland. This almost exact scenario has previously happened already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_of_the_European_Union#The_British_and_Polish_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_... (those using mobile Wikipedia app, scroll down to "The British and Polish protocol") Also: > Britain was in basically just in for the economic side of the European Communities, and always rejected or scoffed at the idea of European integration The lecture of other opt-outs tends to confirm that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-outs_in_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-outs_in_the_European_Union Lastly: > authoritarian eastern countries like Hungary and Poland. While I understand that the situation there is a bit dire by EU standards, calling them authoritarian is an overstatement. They're not Belarus, UAE or NK. Yet...