"Heritage Foundation is now planning to destruct the European Union – along with its Polish and Hungarian partners" – warned its own global partners Anne Applebaum, known for her skepticism towards the right and conservative forces of the influential spouse of the abroad Minister of Poland.
Written by a writer and writer, the social media entry contains a link to the “demoskattor” article of the Vsquare portal – an global group of left-liberal authors portraying themselves as investigative journalists. 1 of them, the Hungarian Szabolcs Panyi described in a critical-alarmist speech a joint study by the Ordo Iuris Institute and Mathias Corvinus Collegium from Budapest.
‘Most influential think tank Trump administration, The Heritage Foundation, receives proposals from non-liberal forces in Poland and Hungary on how to form the future of the European Union. The proposals that VSquare reached include the decommissioning of key EU institutions and the renaming of the full block," he said.
"While The Heritage Foundation continues to form Trump's administration policy, its cooperation with non-liberal actors from Central Europe raises serious questions about the future direction of transatlantic relations and the conservative commitment of the United States to European affairs," he stressed in his summary of Panya's text.
After specified encouraging recommendations, it is worth looking at the study of Ordo Iuris and the Hungarian MCC.
The union is sick. Diagnosis and treatment
More than 40 pages of improvement and the proposal to reformulate cooperation between European countries have come from a disastrous image of the EU's long-term evolution. As the authors recalled, in her early days, she assumed economical cooperation. present it is simply a powerful organization with its own currency and a judicial tribunal, and its authorities can punish associate States financially.
"What started as a free trade task and peaceful coexistence between nations has evolved into an institution that affects almost all aspects of governance in Europe, centralising power at the expense of national sovereignty," Ordo Iuris emphasises.
"The EU is presently facing an existential crisis. any advocate further integration, speeding up the federalization process. However, decades of increasing centralization have not solved Europe's problems – on the contrary, they have deepened them. The solution is to return to the first principles on which the Union was based," explains the legal organisation of the objectives of the initiative launched in September 2024 together with the Heritage Foundation. An global convention was held in Warsaw at which representatives of think tanks from various countries of our continent discussed the improvement of the EU treaty by Germany and France. Participants expressed the request to formulate an alternate task – not aiming at further centralisation of power at the expense of states but, on the contrary, to give them a number of attributes of their own sovereignty.
The diagnosis made by conservative analysts of the current condition of the European Union lists a number of adverse phenomena, strengthening the tendency over time to deviate from its first assumptions. There is an erosion of national sovereignty towards a quasi-federal state limiting national decision-making power. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) continues to extend its jurisdiction, reducing associate States' autonomy. The EU institutions, in peculiar the European Parliament and the European Commission, have long gone beyond their first mandate. They force individual capitals to replace national government imposed with Brussels solutions.
"EU bodies are increasingly imposing ideologically motivated policies on associate States without any mandate", says the report.
The 2 improvement scenarios presented in the survey presume a return to the first form of the community, defined in 1957, or a completely fresh opening, with a complete organization reconstruction. A flexible, intergovernmental strategy would appear in place of the current EU framework, allowing individual governments to find the scope and nature of their common cooperation. This would mean moving distant from strict management by a narrow group of Eurocrats.
- ‘Back to the roots’
The first of the proposed schemes contains 23 proposals whose main emphasis is decentralisation, national interests, flexibility, deregulation and strengthening the function of the associate States. National governments hold control of key policies. The cooperation model assumes the following basic assumptions.
Flexibility in the functioning of the fresh community is based on national interests. It's integration. â la carte with clauseopt-out, allowing associate States to exclude themselves from policies contrary to their priorities.
The centre of gravity of the agreement is the associate States whose national sovereignty remains the basis of the EU.
The European Council (the assembly of leaders of states) is the political core of the Union over all another institutions.
The European Parliament is losing its current legislative weight. Its composition is to be taken into account by national delegations in order to guarantee that national citizens have a real impact on the legislation.
States agree that the competences of the European Union will never become above national constitutions.
The rule of unanimity in decision-making is to be extended.
- New opening
In the second option, conservative analysts propose a complete organization reconstruction of the European community. A flexible, intergovernmental strategy is being created in place of the current EU. It allows countries to find the scope and nature of their cooperation without overriding transnational management.
Intergovernmental bodies play a major function in this construction. Decisions concerning all countries shall be taken on a unanimous basis. Disputes between associate States are decided by the European Court of Arbitration.
States participate in the main areas of cooperation, while they are at their discretion active in additional projects specified as border protection, energy safety and research.
There is simply a clear discrimination between the competences of the EU and the associate States, with guarantees of subsidiarity (subsidiarity) and options to opt out of the various spheres of deeper cooperation.
National constitutions hold precedence over EU commitments, allowing adjustments based on national legal frameworks, while ensuring cooperation within agreed limits.
The EU's solution and the creation of a fresh union based on the principles presented is achieved through a transitional plan.
Sources: Ordo Iuris, vsquare.org, Facebook/Jerzy Zacniewski, PCH24.pl
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