Who voted for bugs, energy classes and MES? Some say no

There are four decisions, of different weights, which are greatly irritating the Italians, for which no one in Italy has ever voted or given an explicit mandate for acceptance. Let's talk about:

• regulation allowing insect meal in foodstuffs;
• regulation that allows wines to be indicated as "Dangerous", applied in Ireland;
• proposal for a directive for the revision of the energy classes of homes;
• ESM approval.

These are extremely irritating or potentially devastating regulations, directives, or approvals. Brussels takes the trouble to approve the importation of insect flours from the Far East, the consumption of which is extraneous to all our culinary traditions. Because? Do we not have agriculture sufficient to meet the food needs in Europe or are we planning to demolish it? What interests are behind this approval, even as the interference of Qatar and Morocco in parliamentary decisions is being investigated? The second regulation is the result of the desire for extreme control by the Commission and Parliament, who consider citizens a group of idiots incapable of making clear-headed decisions (and perhaps they are right, given the tolerance shown towards European decisions) and who think they are doing live citizens forever because they give up a good glass of red. The regulation on the efficiency of buildings, which we have been writing about for months in Scenari , and whose publication is continually postponed because we are aware of its negative impact, is the result of ecological extremism conducted on the skin of citizens. The last one, the reform of the European Stability Mechanism which aims to kill two birds with one stone: to prepare an instrument which, on the one hand, cages Italy, by having the public debt transferred to the ECB to an external entity which has nothing to deal with states or central banks and who only behaves like a cold debt collector, on the other hand preparing an instrument to finance the next banking crisis that will hit France and Germany.

They are all intolerable decisions for which the Italians have never given a mandate either in national or European votes. Have they ever written in electoral programs "If you vote for me you can eat insects"? “If you vote for me you will have to have more efficient houses, at your expense”? "If you vote for me then do you want your public debt to be potentially transferred to an institution that will enforce it at any cost"? Yet someone has made these regulations work, or is trying to.

First of all, the solution to this type of problem is simple and complex at the same time: all you need is the courage to say NO and be ready to take the decision even to the extreme consequences. For example, do you not want legislation on the energy classification of houses? It must be made clear that the new government is ready to put a red line on the intolerable methods of application, that is, on forcing existing houses. Without ifs and buts, without doubts, without "Logics of the package". Nope, plain and simple. The same with regard to the ESM, up to the extreme consequence of the withdrawal from the mechanism which, in any case, would not have the dimensions to guarantee the Italian debt. Better to get back the 14 billion paid and cancel the guarantees, to be transferred to the Interbank Deposit Guarantee Fund, rather than being an irrelevant minority shareholder in a fund managed by third parties. They are two simple moves, in theory, complex in practice, because they require the rarest good in politics: courage.

So we need to review the work of the Italian Delegation to the European Union, our second embassy in Brussels, which needs to change its focus, concentrating and acting in time on the most sensitive dossiers. It seems evident that the work on the dossier relating to the efficiency of buildings has been done poorly, not warning the government sufficiently about the potential negative consequences of the decision.

If you want to count you have to be well informed and be willing to say NO. There's not much more to say.

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The article Who voted for insects, energy classes and ESM? Some say no , it comes from Scenari Economici .

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/chi-ha-votato-per-insetti-classi-energetiche-e-mes-ce-chi-dice-no/ on Sun, 15 Jan 2023 16:26:05 +0000.