Opposition politicians speaking in the media about the deep reform of the European Union, where work has recently accelerated, assure each other that these are only preliminary proposals and that their parties will defend Poland’s sovereignty.
However, these proposals are not at all provisional in nature, and at least at the level of the European Parliament their form is in fact final, and the 267 amendments proposed in both Treaties (on the European Union – TEU and on the functioning of the European Union) the EU – TFEU) will ultimately be adopted at the November meeting of the European Parliament (most likely on November 22) and by an overwhelming majority.
This is clear because in the EP Constitutional Committee, when voting on the report containing these proposals, there were twenty members of the EPP, Left, Renew (Liberals), the Greens and the Communists in favor, and only five members of the ECR. ID and non-affiliation were against. In November there will probably be similar voting ratios in the plenary hall, although perhaps some Polish MEPs from Platform, PSL or Left will take away the voting cards of the readers while they are in the hall, for fear of public opinion in our country.
The changes proposed to the Treaties by the rapporteurs of the above-mentioned five political groups that voted “in favor” (one MEP from Belgium and four MEPs from Germany) are indeed far-reaching and, as experts put it, therefore lead to a “Copernican situation” . revolution” in the EU, as a result of which the Community of 27 sovereign states will be transformed into a centralized superstate with German-French rule, in which the member states will have only the powers of the federated states (as in Germany).
This includes the transfer of two more areas to the EU’s exclusive competences: environmental protection and biodiversity (Article 3 TFEU), as well as eight other areas to so-called shared competences, i.e.: foreign and security policy, border protection, forestry, public health, civil defense, industry and education (Article 4 TFEU). The working mechanism of shared competences is that in these areas only matters that are not taken over by the EU institutions remain for the Member State.
Furthermore, the changes would also mean that Member States would be deprived of the right of veto in as many as 65 areas, which would mean that this right would only remain when it comes to the admission of new members to the EU (even changes to the Treaties after this reform). would not be adopted unanimously, but by 4/5 of the Member States).
It should be added that the approved proposals include a provision that the EU currency is the euro, so that all Member States should eventually adopt this currency, and therefore the seven countries currently outside the eurozone should quickly adopt it (Denmark , Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania). The so-called record The heavy category also includes the EU’s so-called strategic autonomy, which in the longer term would mean that a broadly understood EU defense policy would have to be conducted independently, without the United States.
After being voted on in the European Parliament in December, this report will be forwarded by Spain, the president for this six months, to the European Union Council for General Affairs, which will probably be forwarded by a simple majority vote. at the level of the European Council (heads of government or state of the Member States).
This in turn could convene the so-called Convention to Amend the Treaties (heads of government or state, representatives of national parliaments, the European Parliament and the European Commission) and then we have a path of changes that could take three to four years, or the path included in art. 48 – Fri. “Simplified amendment procedures”, whereby, in accordance with point 6, the establishment of the said treaty may be omitted, and the amendments will be adopted by the European Council and ratified by the Member States (but if they do not ratify them, then they may withdraw in the so-called second EU circle, without influencing EU decisions or access to EU funds).
The Germans and the French are in a great hurry to make these changes to the Treaties because, first of all, their economies are rapidly losing distance from the economies of the US, China and other Asian countries, and are merely dominant in every respect. In such a changed EU, they can be at the top and lead the third largest economy in the world, namely the EU, thus remaining an equal partner to the aforementioned US and China. Second, current elites in Berlin and Paris are watching with concern the growing discontent in their societies, which could result in a change of government in the coming elections. It therefore suits them to deprive the Member States of a significant part of their sovereignty. because the right decision-making center will be Brussels, where they still reign supreme.
It is for these two reasons that the Christian Democratic, liberal and left-wing elites in Brussels are in such a hurry and perhaps that is why they will be willing to take shortcuts when it comes to the proposed change to the treaties. They also welcome the establishment of a government in Poland led by Tusk, because they know that the new government will agree to these treaty changes without any reservations, thereby eliminating one of the main pillars of resistance to these changes, namely the Law and Justice government and the surrounding meeting of the governments of smaller Central and Eastern European countries.
Source: wPolityce