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.
