This is surely not the EU the founders had envisioned

Security and prosperity through the voluntary cooperation of nation states – this was the European vision that the EU was founded upon. Looking at the European community today, however, it is clear that this is not the EU that the founders had once envisioned. Imperial ambitions have long been at play to undermine the original values of the bloc, Balint Rotyis, an expert at the Hungarian Nezopont Institute told our newspaper.

2023. 06. 09. 16:08
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Blackmail has become a major weapon

One wonders whether the founding fathers of the community would recognize their ideas in today's European Union. The original plan was to create peace and prosperity through the cooperation of member states that have equal rights. Today, however, the community shows an entirely different picture, as Brussels wants to manage it as a single, centralized machine. By withholding financial resources and withdrawing other rights, the EU's leading Brusselites are using their power to exert pressure on states whose governments think differently and have different values than those of the leftist-liberal mainstream. Nezopont Institute analyst Balint Rotyis told our paper that at the time of its creation,

decision-makers recognized that common institutions would also link the economies of European nations, and thus create prosperity on the continent. So these common institutions were designed to work together to unite and represent the interests of the member states. The EU's institutions weren't empowered to interfere in the internal political processes of member states, let alone use their powers to cause damage to a member state simply because its government or population don't share the current mainstream view on a particular issue.

 

France and Germany turning a blind eye

Large member states  preach water and drink wine when they try to forcefully change the laws of smaller member states, despite the fact that similar laws prevail in their own countries. This is how Brussels has blackmailed the Hungarian and Polish governments, for example, by making various binding recommendations on the disbursement of EU funds to the two countries. Meanwhile, in Germany and France, corruption scandals within the government and the judiciary - which is far from being independent - are ignored. Balint Rotyis told us that 

Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the Commission, was once asked why he was so lenient on France's lax fiscal policy. 'Because that's France,' he replied.

Unfortunately, this kind of hypocrisy was not only characteristic of Mr Juncker, but it is also part of a daily practice at EU institutions, the analyst added. Brussels often accuses Hungary of a lack of press freedom, while the reality is rather different. Let's cite as an example the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH), the body that controls and regulates the media, where the government only plays a role in nominating its president. The governments of Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden have a much larger influence on national media authorities than in Hungary.

Yet these member states are not subject to the kind of accusations that Hungary is. The two examples mentioned above perfectly illustrate the fact that Brussels' institutions are lenient and forgiving when it comes to old member states, but their attitude is completely different towards smaller and poorer Central European states that joined after 2004. The latter states are treated not only more strictly, but downright unfairly. This is a problem because, although it is customary in international politics that the strongest is right, in the EU the same rules should apply to everyone, whether it is France or Hungary,

Mr Rotyis told our paper.

 

Corruption rife in EU institutions

Left-wing and liberal parties and party families are rife with corruption, and skeletons kept falling out of the closet in recent months. In addition, some say the public can only see the tip of the iceberg. Despite this, Eva Kaili, who was arrested in the Brussels corruption scandal, and other suspects of the case can still come and go in EU institutions as they please, as if nothing had happened.
 

This is not only true for politicians under investigation for corruption, but also for all kinds of NGOs, often including lobbyists and organiózations that are an integral part of the Soros network. 

In the lead of these globalist interest groups we often find Soros's organizations, that have successfully infiltrated the EU institutions. In 2017, a list of 226 MEPs close to George Soros was leaked from the internal database of the US speculator's Open Society Foundations, meaning that the billionaire controlled one third of the EP,

Balint Rotyis stated.

 

A fish stinking from the head?

When it comes to shady dealings, they are quite easy to detect among leading Brusselites. Ursula von der Leyen's vaccine procurement deal, reached through several cell phone text messages, has been hushed up, even though the suspicion of corruption arose in many instances. 
 

Although the press has managed to halt Frans Timmermans's planned energy dictatorship, the media might not be able to block the EU's forced green policy. In the latter, there are plenty of ideas to take even more member state competences into EU hands.
 

It is also worth recalling the cases of the liberal Guy Verhofstadt. The politician, who has regularly attacked Hungary, has been implicated in a number of dubious cases in recent years, and his hypocrisy has been noticed by many.

The openly declared goal of Brusselites is to replace sovereign nation states with a United States of Europe. There have always been federalists and sovereignists, but rationality has always prevailed, the expert pointed out.

The European Parliament, the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union are constantly expanding their own powers in creative ways that bypass the Treaties and the member states. At the same time, sovereignists are no longer recognised as legitimate debating partners, but are labelled as extremist and anti-democratic and are excluded from political debate,

Balint Rotyis said, adding that anyone who has studied history knows that no one has ever been able to unite Europe permanently by force. The founders' aim was to create lasting peace and prosperity, not a short-lived European empire where Brussels could play the role of imperial centre and member states would have to accept that they are mere provinces of that empire.

Cover photo: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Photo: MTI/EPA/Olivier Hoslet)

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