Elezioni Europee. I liberal hanno pubblicato il loro testamento politico.
Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2019-05-04.
Un napoletano verace, stirpe nobile e colta ma disgraziatamente in via di estinzione, avrebbe risposto
«Ccà Nisciuno è Fesso»
oppure, secondo una variante lessicologica
«Accà nisciuno è fesso»
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Ci si permette di ricordare come l’articolo allegato sia scritto in termini politicamente corretti.
In accordo, il termine “the rule of law“, stato di diritto, è un corpo giurisprudenziale e legislativo che attua il credo liberal socialista, mentre il termine “illiberal” altro non significa che non concordante con la predetta ideologia.
Segue il testamento politico dei liberal socialisti.
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«Attacks on the rule of law by national governments have been spreading like a virus across Europe and the EU appears to be powerless to contain it»
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«Hungary, Poland and Romania have each taken steps to undermine freedom of the media and independence of the judiciary»
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«To have these countries turn away from the EU’s foundational values of rule of law, democracy and respect for fundamental rights is an existential crisis for Europe»
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«Article 7 empowers the EU to determine that there is a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law in a member state, and ultimately impose sanctions on the member state at issue, for example the suspension of voting rights in the Council»
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«But this requires unanimity amongst member states, and with the virus now in three countries, that looks impossible to achieve»
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«Unless the three arms of the EU start to work together, the virus risks spreading further»
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«In May of last year, it proposed a law that would make the grant of EU funding to member states conditional on the state of the rule of law at the national level»
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«The idea is that respect for the rule of law ensures that EU spending in the member states, and ultimately, the EU budget itself, is sufficiently protected from misuse or corruption»
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«The response of the Council’s Legal Service (CLS) was no, no and no»
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«First, it felt that the proposed regulation was incompatible with Article 7»
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«Second, it felt that the stated legal basis for the …. was improper because the proposal failed to firmly establish a link between rule of law deficiencies and sound financial management»
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«Finally, the CLS objected on two very technical issues in relation to the process for adopting measures under the proposed mechanism»
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«This roadblock seems to be more evidence that the council is not serious about meaningfully confronting rule of law backsliding»
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Questo articolo ben si attaglia a descrivere quale fosse il pensiero della Commissione e del parlamento uscenti.
All’atto di stendere i Trattati, l’élite dominante dava per scontato il fatto che essa sarebbe rimasta al potere sia nei singoli stati sia nell’Unione Europea nei secoli dei secoli. Non seppe resistere al vezzo di introdurre il concetto di votazioni alla unanimità e quelle del diritto di veto.
Poi, è stato sufficiente che tre piccole nazioni, Ungheria, Polonia a Romania si ribellassero al sistema, per bloccare tutte le loro manovre. Se i liberal socialisti fossero religiosi, cosa che non è, populisti e quelle tre nazioni sarebbero il demonio. Ma anche l’attuale Italia non scherza affatto.
Se Mr Macron aveva definito gli identitari sovranisti dei “lebbrosi“, i liberal socialisti affermano che i populisti siano un “virus across Europe“. Sembrerebbe essere un modo invero ben poco lusinghiero per etichettare quanti non la avessero pensato come loro avrebbero gradito.
Non solo: «Hungary, Poland and Romania …. undermine freedom». Quindi, si è arrivati al paradosso che, se queste tre nazioni agiscano liberamente, nel far ciò avrebbero sottominato la libertà. Una gran bella contraddizione. Per i liberal infatti la gente sarebbe libera di attuare la loro volontà ed il loro credo politico. In poche parole, è una visione tirannica, di stretta derivazione giacobina e comunista.
Il 26 maggio i due massimi gruppi parlamentari europei di matrice liberal socialista, il Ppe e S&D, dovrebbero perdere ciascuno una cinquantina di deputati, e le elezioni politiche nei sette stati chiamati questo anno alle urne varieranno ulteriormente la composizione politica del Consiglio Europeo.
Se sicuramente gli identitari sovranisti non otterranno la maggioranza di governo, i partiti tradizionali riceveranno un colpo severo: è il loro crollo il vero messaggio politico.
Attacks on the rule of law by national governments have been spreading like a virus across Europe and the EU appears to be powerless to contain it.
Hungary, Poland and Romania have each taken steps to undermine freedom of the media and independence of the judiciary.
To have these countries turn away from the EU’s foundational values of rule of law, democracy and respect for fundamental rights is an existential crisis for Europe.
Article 7 empowers the EU to determine that there is a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law in a member state, and ultimately impose sanctions on the member state at issue, for example the suspension of voting rights in the Council.
But this requires unanimity amongst member states, and with the virus now in three countries, that looks impossible to achieve.
Article 7 has now been triggered with Poland and Hungary, but little to no progress has been made in either case.
The Commission – and the EU Parliament – have been trying to find alternative ways forward, but their attempts are being continually thwarted by the council.
Start working together
Unless the three arms of the EU start to work together, the virus risks spreading further.
The communication requests input on what the EU can do to build a common rule of law culture in the EU, strengthen the rule of law at the national level and offer better enforcement when rule of law problems in member states aren’t being sufficiently addressed at the national level.
This isn’t the first time the commission has attempted to address this dire situation.
In May of last year, it proposed a law that would make the grant of EU funding to member states conditional on the state of the rule of law at the national level.
The idea is that respect for the rule of law ensures that EU spending in the member states, and ultimately, the EU budget itself, is sufficiently protected from misuse or corruption.
The response of the Council’s Legal Service (CLS) was no, no and no.
First, it felt that the proposed regulation was incompatible with Article 7, which serves, according to the CLS, as the sole method for addressing rule of law problems in the member states.
Second, it felt that the stated legal basis for the proposal – Article 322 of the Treaty of Lisbon which permits the EU to adopt laws concerning financial rules – was improper because the proposal failed to firmly establish a link between rule of law deficiencies and sound financial management.
Finally, the CLS objected on two very technical issues in relation to the process for adopting measures under the proposed mechanism.
Make no mistake – the proposal has its problems, and the CLS correctly identified some of them.
For example, the proposal doesn’t adequately define what is meant by ‘generalised rule of law deficiencies’.
Beyond that, it doesn’t give enough thought to how the suspension or termination of funds might more directly harm some people and organisations that were the ultimate target of the funds and what measures might have to be put in place to ensure that deserving parties still receive financial support.
But that doesn’t mean the whole idea should be rejected.
In fact, financial penalties are likely to be the only way to ensure wayward governments change their behaviour.
Council is roadblock
This roadblock seems to be more evidence that the council is not serious about meaningfully confronting rule of law backsliding.
As well as deeming a ‘soft’ Rule of Law Framework developed by the commission in 2014 as unlawful, its main move has been to establish an essentially secret annual rule of law dialogue for which no input is solicited from stakeholders and from which no papers or conclusions are published.
This is not the behaviour of an organisation committed to promoting the rule of law.
Contrast this to the European parliament, which has passed resolutions condemning actions in Hungary and Poland, and which offered meaningful amendments to the commission’s proposal in January of this year that partially address the CLS’s concerns.
Nevertheless, the proposal on financial penalties seems to be on hold.
Whether the commission will continue to work on it is likely to depend on the outcome of the rule of law consultation launched with the communication.
The commission has asked for responses from all interested stakeholders, including the EU institutions themselves.
Presumably the council will have something to say – hopefully this time it will be ‘yes’.
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