Von der Leyen’s ‘Commission Crisis’ Escalates Ahead of Strasbourg Plenary
The Commission president continues to struggle with her self-inflicted gender woes.
The Commission president continues to struggle with her self-inflicted gender woes.
The mishap did not help the public image of the “traveling circus” that costs European taxpayers €125 million a year for no good reason.
This week saw a cross-partisan Gallic alliance of French MEPs unite to secure a new parliamentary building on French soil, which led even federalists to complain of wasteful EU spending.
Recent protests in the Netherlands could just be the first firing shot in a wave of discontent after the European Parliament passed the Nature Restoration Law yesterday, despite conservative warnings that it would play into the hands of populists.
Unelected Eurocrats, with questionable democratic legitimacy, have an “unquenchable lust for power,” conservative MEP Ryszard Legutko replied to German Chancellor Scholz’s proposed power grabs sold as inevitable EU reforms.
The founders of the Council of Europe saw the need for an international organisation dedicated to protecting human rights. But there were other options back then, and there surely are now.
The ECR chief accused that the European Parliament, among other things, of inflicting immense damage on Europe, infecting it with shameless partisanship, and being anti-democratic.
Signatories to the Convention must “abide by the final judgement of the court in any case to which they are parties.” Plans for an updated Bill of Rights offer no way around the fact that final rulings from Strasbourg have binding force in UK law.
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