Sir, – Hugh Pierce suggests that Hungary should be “suspended” from the EU (Letters, 24 October).
How does he propose carrying this out? Will customs posts be erected around the country to protect the single market and the Schengen Area?
Will workers crossing back and forth to Slovenia and Austria need work permits?
The idea that an entire nation should be shut out of European integration because a particular party governs it, is a dangerous precedent that no Irish citizen should advance. – Yours, etc,
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STEPHEN SHAW,
Zürich,
Switzerland.
A chara, – A correspondent demands that European leaders should remove Hungary’s Viktor Orbán from “any further involvement in formulating EU and Nato policy regarding Ukraine” (Letters, October 25th).
May I remind this correspondent that Ireland is not a member of Nato and consequently cannot take part in or formulate Nato decision-making processes (if it is legally permissible) to exclude Hungary.
Also, Nato and the EU are two legally distinct and separate entities. – Is mise,
MICHEÁL O’CATHAIL,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.
