In a remarkable drum-beating display in Strasbourg last week, the legal mask slipped, the velvet gloves came off, and the EU elites declared war on Hungary.
Given the scale of the migratory disaster, the least the EU could do is to grant an opt-out to the states that wish to regain control over their borders.
Nothing in the treaties says the Commission president can reject a candidate before the parliamentary hearings, but that’s exactly what von der Leyen did.
No one will miss Breton’s authoritarianism, but his departure only intensifies Ursula von der Leyen’s grip and makes the decline in French influence even more apparent.
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