Check the contracts ofEuropean Unionincluding the voting systemunanimity. This is the Commission President’s line Ursula von der Leyen and by the French President Emmanuel Macron during the Europe Day celebrations. today May 9th were presented the 49 maxi proposals developed during the experiment of direct democracy that involved everyone EU countries. From the shareholders’ meetings, a motion was made for “change the contracts‘, is now strongly supported by both from the Leyen that of Macron himself, below objection fromHungary which in turn blocked the green light for the sixth pack sanctions against Russia. The idea of revising the treaties and overcoming unanimity was also supported by the Italian Prime Minister. Mario dragonbut a group of 13 EU countries has already signed up for a paperless (informal document) and opposed it: “That would be reckless and premature.”
At the closing ceremony of the Future of Europe Conference, Macron said he wanted to start a discussion the very next day June European Council. “The challenge you set us is to be Effectiveit means Law fastin a compact way, leaving no one behind, and given that it will be necessary Check the rules. And I want to say that one of the ways of reform is convening one convection for the revision of the contracts. It is a proposal from the European Parliament with which I agree I am in favor‘ Said Macron, who holds the EU’s rotating presidency. The French President, as before him from the Leyen, stressed the importance of changing decision-making mechanisms. “The avant-gardes, differing opinions have always been the driving force behind Europe’s growth, but in recent years I think there is a need for it decide at 27 to have slowed down this commitment,” said the French President. “The heads of state and government they never come together as a eurozone and that is wrong. L’Europe at multiple speeds It already exists. We must not exclude anyone, but we must not allow a few to block everything either.
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Von der Leyen shortly before he had supported the proposal, which was also received by the participants of the conference themselves: “I will always stand with those who want to reform the EU to make it work better‘ he explained, indicating that he wanted to work in this direction ‘without taboos and without an ideological red line’. “I’ve always said that vote unanimously in some key areas of “European politics”. it makes no sense anymore if we want to move faster”. L’unanimity provides for the approval of all EU member states and is one of the voting rules in force in the European Council. The Council must vote unanimously when making decisions affecting several strategic sectorsprovided for in the treaties. These include, for example, taxation, social security, the common foreign and security policy, and the accession of new Member States. Already the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 increased the number of sectors where voting is expected qualified majority.
On May 3rd, Italian Prime Minister Draghi, in his speech to a half-empty Strasbourg classroom, had already opened the review of contracts to deal with an emergency situation like the war in Ukraine. “The European institutions have served European citizens well, but they do insufficient for the reality that is manifesting before us today,” said the Prime Minister. “We need a pragmatic federalism”. And if “this requires the beginning of a path that leads to the revision of the treaties, it should be trodden with courage and confidence,” Draghi added. But the Italian prime minister’s request was, above all, “to go beyond the principle unanimityfrom which an intergovernmental logic emerges crossed vetoesand moving towards qualified majority voting”.
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“Of course there are different opinions between the Member States, and that is why I said if we want to move forward convention we have to set the framework for the process, I have to set this framework. We’ll have one on that discussion in June,” stressed Macron during the closing ceremony of the conference on the future of Europe. Actually a group of thirteen European countries – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Slovenia – are opposed to changing the European treaties. Initiating a process to amend the contracts would risk “removing political energy the important task of finding solutions to the citizens’ questions “and” to the challenges Urgent Geopolitics which Europe has to face,” write the people from the capital in the non-paper.
In the joint document, the 13 countries define the conference on the future of Europe as “an unprecedented democratic exercise” but recall that “the treaty change has never been one Scope of the conference” and “what matters is the ideas and concerns of the citizens”. “The ideas presented should deserve serious follow-up” and “they shouldn’t exploited to serve special institutional interests”, write in capital letters and specify that “each European institution will follow its own”. Rules procedural“And” the agreed rules of the conference “. “We also recall that any decision must be taken within the framework of the division of competences established by the treaty” of the different EU institutions and in full respect of the main principles such as subsidiarity and proportionality“, we read in the non-paper. “While we are not ruling out any options at this time, we do not support trials ruthless and premature To start a process of changing the treaties, mark the countries “by which the administration is made”. crisis the EU has shown in recent years – including the aggression by Covid and Russia against Ukraine clear what the EU can achieve within the current framework of the Treaties. The EU acted and implemented quickly common solutions and Effective. We already have a functioning Europe. We don’t have to hurry institutional reforms to get results,” the document concludes.