Danger escaped: the European Parliament does not cancel the unanimity in the European Council vote. Some democracy remains
Yesterday in the European Parliament the amendments , prepared and studied in great secrecy by the Socialist+EPP+Liberal majority, which would have introduced majority voting in the European Council, erasing what little democracy remained, were rejected.
We had spoken about the topic in recent days, also presenting the speech by Prof. Antonio Maria Rinaldi who had highlighted the major problems of the reform issued by the AFCO commission. The MEP himself made the announcement that the danger had been averted
THE PRINCIPLE OF OVERCOMING UNANIMITY IN THE COUNCIL DID NOT PASS IN THE PLENARY SESSION IN STRASBOURG TODAY!!!
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— Antonio M. Rinaldi (@Rinaldi_euro) November 22, 2023
Among other things, not even the amendment that would have assigned the Commission a delegation on environmental policy which would also have involved energy was passed, forming a sort of blank check for a European body that is increasingly leaning to the left.
This defeat is directly linked to fractures within the majority: in fact large components of the Popolari voted against the party's orders and therefore against the amendments wanted above all by the extremist liberals of Guy Verhofstadt, the man who would like the European army to intervene all over the world, obviously for peace…. Moreover, the deputies will have to face the voters next year and do not want to present themselves with complex burdens to manage.
So, at least this time, the biggest problems were avoided. What remains of the reform is contradictory and will certainly be deeply reviewed by the Council countries, when they ever discuss it. But we are at the end of the legislature and it is likely that the next legislature will deal with it. This is why the next vote will be more important than ever.
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