{"id":195236,"date":"2023-10-25T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195236"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:20:11","slug":"eu-treaty-plan-will-make-small-nations-vassals-of-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/politics\/eu-treaty-plan-will-make-small-nations-vassals-of-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"EU treaty plan ‘will make small nations vassals of Germany\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Radical” plans to change the treaties which bind members of the EU27 together would result in the construction of a \u201csuperstate\u201d led by Germany, a Brussels insider has warned.<\/p>\n

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski MEP, an MEP for Poland\u2019s Law and Justice Party, offered a scathing verdict on today\u2019s adoption of the European Parliament\u2019s proposed amendments, spearheaded by, among others, arch-Brexit critic Guy Verhofstadt.<\/p>\n

Mr Saryusz-Wolski, speaking on behalf of the Parliament\u2019s European Conservatives and Reformists group, said: “The European Parliament is launching a plan to change the Treaties which, if not stopped, will mean a massive transfer of powers to the EU and a complete change in the Community system.<\/p>\n

“The proposed reform of the EU Treaties would mean a complete change of system and the construction of a superstate. It proposes a radical centralisation of the EU, transforming it de facto into a centralised oligarchic European superstate beyond democratic control.<\/p>\n

“Adopting these changes means weakening the Member States by reducing and taking over their competences.”<\/p>\n

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The text which has been proposed by Mr Verhofstadt (Renew), Sven Simon (EPP), Gabriele Bischoff (S&D), Daniel Freund (Verts\/ALE) and Helmut Scholz (The Left) is the result of discussions which took place during the Conference on the Future of Europe, concluded in May 2022.<\/p>\n

The ECR Group has been fiercely critical of the conference, on the basis that it was \u201cdominated by speakers representing politically biased and centralist perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Saryusz-Wolski, who was one of the conference\u2019s co-rapporteurs until July 2023, when he withdrew, explained: “The work on the report was carried out in a non-transparent and unfair manner.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough consensus was established as the main decision-making procedure, this was quickly changed to ‘consensus minus one’ to exclude the ECR.<\/p>\n

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“Despite the gravity of the topics concerning the EU\u2019s constitutional changes, there has not been sufficiently in-depth discussion and comprehensive analysis regarding all the topics.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanges of a purely political and ideological nature have been pushed through.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Thoroughly substantiated and concrete proposals\u201d submitted by himself on behalf of the ECR aimed at reinforce the functioning of \u201ctreaty-based principles of subsidiarity and proportionality\u201d were rejected outright, he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Saryusz-Wolski had repeatedly raised objections to the amendments proposed by the representatives of the other political groups, he emphasised.<\/p>\n