Posted on 02/17/2019 6:51:06 AM PST by KC_Lion
European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker has changed the rules governing the political activity of European Union Commissioners, allowing them to actively campaign in the upcoming EU Parliament elections.
Formerly the EU Commission, an unelected body which acts as the bloc’s executive and is the sole initiator of EU-level laws, was regarded as technocratic rather than overtly political, and not supposed to take partisan political stances of its own volition — at least in theory.
But the new rules will allow the Commission to campaign with, endorse, and support candidates and parties ahead of the European Parliament elections set to be held in May, Il Giornale reports.
“From the beginning I wanted this Commission to have a political value: the Commissioners assume full ownership and political responsibility for all the Commission’s decisions,” Junker said, adding: “I expect them to fully and personally engage with the citizens, and actively participating in the upcoming elections to the European Parliament is an integral part of this commitment.”
Prior to the new rules, Commissioners have not been particularly shy about voicing their political opinions anyway, especially with respect to Italy’s populist coalition government, effectively led by Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio and League (La Lega) leader Matteo Salvini.
EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici has repeatedly slammed Italy over the past several months, even referring to populists across the continent as “little Mussolinis.”
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It does seem like a hopeless design built for corruption.
Who the $&@% would agree to that?
60 million Americans
Including the dead ones. And as Stacey Abrams put it, the “documented and undocumented”.
I believe this is one of the changes demanded by George Soros in his op ed from last week. When Soros says “Jump!”, the EU says “Ja Wohl Mein Führer!”.
Most people don’t realize that much of what passes for law in this country is regulations.
Regulations written by unelected bureaucrats. Often arbitrary and intended to enforce political ideology that has been rejected by the voters.
Regulations that have the power to fine you, to confiscate your property, even to imprison you. Usually without any due process.
Also, when unelected judges make law instead of interpreting law, as is their real duty, they join the ranks of bureaucrats violating the Constitution.
All of which is despotism. Plain and simple.
This is almost as bad as our “commissioners” at the inJustice departments giving themselves the power to actively work to overthrow a duly elected president.
Indeed so. The EU version is merely more open about it, although utterly dishonest in what it claims to otherwise be; the entire structure is an “administrative state” with no prior semblance of a constitutional republic.
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