After the speech last Saturday in Krakow by Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, who explained for almost an hour what the changes to the EU treaties proposed by the five groups were and what their consequences would be for Poland, in turn on Sunday in various journalistic programs Opposition MPs were asked about it, Platform, PSL and Left, who announced the formation of a government coalition.
MPs from the Platform, PSL and Left denied that such changes to the Treaties were certain and also said they were against them. PSL MP Zgorzelski even said on Polsat News:
Neither the PSL nor the other entities currently building the governing coalition will occur to any of us to agree to any federalization or deprivation of the powers of sovereign states, because this is simply the essence of the existence of would violate our state.
MP Zgorzelski has well defined the essence of the forced Treaty changes and stated that it does not even occur to him and his coalition partners to agree to such changes, except that his fellow party members in the European People’s Party, to which the Platform and the PSL belong, they were not only did they agree, they agreed to these changes, but they are actually their co-creators.
Let us not forget that these forced changes are not provisional at all, at least at the level of the European Parliament; their form is in fact final, and the 267 changes proposed in both Treaties (on the European Union – TEU and on the Functioning of the EU – TFEU) will ultimately be adopted at the November meeting of the European Parliament (most likely on 23 November) 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, as a result lead to a “ Copernican 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 domination, in which the member states will have only the powers of the Länder (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 functioning of shared powers in the EU means that in these areas only matters that have not been taken over by the EU institutions are left to the Member States.
Remove the veto
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 the vote in the European Parliament in November, this report will be submitted in December by Spain, the President of the European Union for this six-month period, to the General Affairs Council of the European Union, which will probably, by a simple majority of votes, forward this to the level of the European Council (heads of government or heads of 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 set out in Article 48 – Simplified procedures for amendments, whereby in accordance with point 6 the establishment of the said Convention may be omitted, and the amendments will be adopted by the European Council and ratified by the Member States (but if they If they do not ratify this, they may find themselves in the so-called second EU circle, without influencing EU decisions or access to EU funds).
Opposition parliamentarians denying that such profound changes in the Treaties are a fact, at least at EP level, and downplaying them even more is an attempt by them to avoid their responsibility to Polish public opinion.
This kind of behavior is, to say the least, confusing in a situation where the party factions in the EP, including Platform, PSL and Left, have prepared these changes and are now implementing them decisively.
Source: wPolityce