Loading ...Enormous Power Grab: France, Germany Want To End Veto Rights In The EU This Year
Smaller nations fear an end of sovereignty as the EU races to centralize powers away from nation states…
In what may be the beginning of the end for European nations, Germany and France are determined to reform national rights, including the EU right of veto, this year. The debate has caused a stir in recent months, and in recent weeks, the measure has been put back on the agenda.
France and Germany are convinced that a large-scale institutional reform of the European Union, including the abolition of the veto on European Council votes, could be achieved this year, French EU Affairs Minister Laurence Boone and German Minister of State Anna Lührmann told Euractiv.
“They want to take more and more powers away from the nation states and transfer them to Brussels to create a United States of Europe over the heads of its citizens,” said Kickl.
How do you effectively DEVOLVE power?
The Swiss managed it with their cantons.
The US managed it, initially, in 1787 with the Articles of Confederation.
Open Source coding managed it.
Everywhere else, and every other time and place, power becomes more centralized.
Centralization and homogenization = mediocrity = failure.
“United States of Europe” – that part is actually incorrect, if it is implying that EU will become more like USA. No way, EU is already much much more authoritarian to it’s members. If you resist something, (Hungary) you get under nasty attack, threats by all others really quick.
At least in USA local governments most of the time precede federal government. Each state rules differently. Remember masking and lockdowns? Some republican states resisted and their citizens were living free. That didn’t happen in EU! There is no real resistance to commands from Basel in EU. If veto is gone, then EU countries better all leave or their citizens are done.