Posted on 01/29/2020 2:12:14 PM PST by KC_Lion
Senior Member of European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has made the extraordinary assessment that the lessons to be learnt from Brexit is for Brussels to push for ‘More Europe’ and to take away even more democracy from nation-states.
Speaking ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the UK-EU withdrawal deal on Wednesday, Mr Verhofstadt rejected the notion that the lesson to be learnt from Brexit is to devolve power back to the nation-state but to give more power to Brussels.
The former Belgian prime minister said: “This lesson, dear colleagues, is not to undo the union, as some are arguing. The lesson is to deeply reform the union. To make a real union in the coming years.
“That means a union without opt-ins, opt-outs, rebates, exceptions, and above all without unanimity rules and veto rights.”
The MEP and European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator has long been in favour of reducing the democratic input of individual countries in order to grant more power to Brussels and in effect create a European superstate.
Two such rights still held by EU countries are the veto and unanimity voting, the latter of which meaning that all countries in the European Council must agree on a proposal before it is adopted. Without unanimity or vetos, the EU could ram through reforms without the agreement of the democratically-elected representatives and force its decisions onto the diverse European nations across the bloc.
Mr Verhofstadt concluded: “Only then can we act, only then can we defend our interests, and defend our values. it is the lack of effectiveness that is the problem that we have seen with Brexit.”
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Belinda de Lucy, MEP for South East England, remarked: “Democracy will not survive the EU. It can’t.”
MEP for North West England Claire Fox said: “Let me tell you, listening to Guy Verhofstadt — he hasn’t learnt a thing. Doubling down on sovereignty (impossible in the modern world) and [taking] issue not with the EU making too few concessions to nation-states, but too many. Full-blown Federalist speech. Even Remainers/Europhiles look uncomfortable.”
Oh I like that guy. Go for it buster. It will hasten the return to reality for you EU pukes.
A year from now (and maybe much sooner) the Brits are going to be SO GLAD they left the EU mess behind. They will prosper while the EU stagnates under the weight of a stultifying, overbearing and inefficient bureaucracy.
Wait until the Germans find out they can never bail on endless subsidies to Greece and Portugal.
The Fourth Reich in Brussels speaks. History teaches it pays to listen
France and Germany are not going to be able to get along.
All the rest are just freeloaders.
The E.U. is done.
Well...they can always look here, to see how our federalists have taken so much power away from our states...
That sounds like how our states' rights are protected by our Articles of Confederation so that some states can't enforce their will on other states... Wait... What happened? Way back in 1789 you say?
Portugal got out of the PIIGS group years ago. Right now only Greece is in it
The US will eventually have to go to war with the EU. That’s the way they’re going.
Err.. why? You think the EU poses more of a threat than China?
“You think the EU poses more of a threat than China?”
‘more of a threat’ remains to be seen but given your words here it’s clear what we both think of an EU armed with nuclear weapons...which they will be when they subsume the French military into the EU military.
1. The frogs aren’t going to subsume their military into a wider European military. Unless that was an expanded French military.
2. There is no EU military. There won’t be either as no one trusts the French and the French don’t want to subsume anything.
Like the USA, where the states are little more than territorial delimiters on a map. The real power is in the central government
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