Farage: Brussels ‘Bully Boys’ Will Build a Bigger EU ‘With No Dissent Allowed’

Breitbart ^ | 20 July 2019 | VICTORIA FRIEDMAN

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that “bully boys” like the next European Commission president will construct a more federalised European Union.

“The EU bully boys (and girls) are not pretending anymore,” Mr Farage wrote in The Telegraph on Friday. “A deeper and more centralised political union is to be built, with no dissent allowed.”

Remarking on Ursula von der Leyen’s recent confirmation as President of the European Commission by the European Parliament — where the former German defence minister was the only candidate on the ballot — Mr Farage called her a “fanatical federalist” whose appointment was “the result of a Franco-German stitch-up“.

“Von der Leyen has an incredibly ambitious programme for her five-year term. In 20 years of sitting in the Strasbourg chamber, I have never heard a speech like the one she gave this week, in which she set out an overt bid for the EU to take control of all kinds of arrangements inside individual nation-states, from an EU minimum wage to the harmonisation of corporation tax,” Mr Farage wrote.

[FLT-bird]

No question about it.....but count on our resident Yurp apologists to run along any minute now to tell us that why no.....we’re just imagining the whole thing. France and Germany don’t run the EU. Why just nevermind that a German bent on obliterating the nation state was the only candidate. That’s all just a figment of our imagination. Besides, Farage said it. Its not like he might know anything about the EU or anything......

[Will88]

Real question: is the European Court the successor to The Hague?

I'd bet the UN will try to hang on to whatever judicial jurisdiction or authority they can wield through The Hague International Court. The UN is into trying to expand its influence rather than being replaced by any upstarts.

[Winniesboy]

If by ‘The Hague’ you mean the International Criminal Court, then they aren’t related in any way. The only function of the European Court of Justice is to adjudicate on compliance with EU Treaty law by the member states. Cases are referred to it by the courts of final appeal of the individual member states, or by the EU Commission. The ECJ has no power to enforce its rulings. The only sanctions are fines on non-compliant member states.

[elcid1970]

“The ECJ has no power to enforce its rulings. The only sanctions are fines on non-compliant member states.”

So...back to my original question: how do they collect the fines when the Poles tell them to stick it, in Polish?

BTW, I looked up The Hague; heard about it all my life. It is the third largest city in the Netherlands, home to many different NGO’s and courts, and is NL’s administrative capital.

I had thought The Hague was just a court building from which rulings on international law were made.

[Winniesboy]

EU spending in Poland exceeds Poland’s EU budget contribution by c. 8 billion euro. Not hard to see how any hypothetical fine could be recouped, if push came to shove.