PiS MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski warns against “Bolshevik methods of violating the principle of consensus in the EP/EU.” The MP points out the dangers of the path chosen by decision-makers in Brussels.
In the group of six co-rapporteurs of the report on changes to the EU treaties of the constitutional committee of AFCO EP, called the Verhofstadt group, of which I was a member and from which I left in the final as a sign of protest, The consensus principle was in effect from the beginning
– Saryusz-Wolski remembers.
However, an important change has taken place.
At the start of the work, in July 2022, Verhofstadt appointed himself, without any consent, “executive rapporteur”, i.e. executive rapporteur. He began to direct the work of the group, with the approval of everyone except me on my behalf from the ECR, he subordinated the entire official apparatus of the Constitutional Commission to himself and had a wide pool of secret, external, non-EP experts
– emphasizes the MEP.
At the end of the year’s work, after hundreds of hours of deliberation and negotiations, before July 2023, when an agreement on the content of the report was already being built between the representatives of the five groups of the EP, he unveiled the cards with my opposition on behalf of @ecrgroup. He stated, which was agreed by the co-rapporteurs of the five political groups, again with my opposition on behalf of the ECR, that CONSENSUS DOES NOT MEAN what is commonly understood as CONSENSUS, that is to say the agreement of all the co-rapporteurs, but the agreement of their majority. Therefore, the de facto consensus principle was established in this way: 1
– reports Saryusz-Wolski.
Conclusions for today
The PiS MEP indicates the consequences of the situation described.
Therefore, today the EU mainstream, that is to say the political mainstream, defines and interprets democratic principles, including the principle of consensus.
– emphasizes Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.
Therefore, in the course of the further stages of the work on amendments to the Treaties, one must be prepared for all methods of institutional and political violence, violation of the principles and the letter of the law, including the principle of consensus, where it is still in force in the Treaties, as well as pressure and blackmail against resistant people, political formations and countries, including the use of new powerful pressure instruments and financial sanctions
– warns the MEP.
I therefore caution against the excessive belief that at the end of the road to the transformation of the EU into a centralized, oligarchic EU superstate that escapes democratic control, a veto by one or a small group of isolated countries may occur.
– underlined.
The experience with the Constitutional Treaty proves that anyone can be broken
– he adds.
How to counter the threat?
At the same time, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski presents the actions that need to be taken to counter this process.
If you don’t build it today:
1/ a broad social movement of opposition to the threat of silent and unnoticed deprivation of nations of their own states and democratic rights,
2/ and a coalition of states that defend the EU as a community of sovereign states, as the Christian founder Robert Schuman wanted, against the usurpation and kidnapping of Europe,
The conspiracy of the left-liberal elites will then win in favor of the revolutionary communist concept of the liquidation of nation states and therefore of their democracy, as the author Spinelli wanted in the Ventotene communist manifesto mentioned in the EP report.
– explains the PiS member.
The unimaginable and irreversible can then become reality
– he decides.
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Source: wPolityce