ER Editor: It had to come to this logically, where individual EU nations states no longer have a right of veto, meaning their vote can no longer scupper a policy decision taken by the rest. Hungary comes to mind as being the target nation of curtailing this right. The other term for the right of veto is unanimity voting, the opposite, qualified majority voting.
As the article below states, it permits a bunch of progressive, globalist policies to get passed more easily.
Again, we still believe it’s a movie. Nobody governs this stupidly.
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Enormous power grab: Germany, France want to end veto rights in the EU this year
Smaller nations fear an end of sovereignty as the EU races to centralize powers away from nation states
MAGYAR NEMZET for REMIX NEWS
In what may be the beginning of the end for European nations, Germany and France are determined to reform national rights, including the EU right of veto, this year.
The debate has caused a stir in recent months, and in recent weeks, the measure has been put back on the agenda.
France and Germany are convinced that a large-scale institutional reform of the European Union, including the abolition of the veto on European Council votes, could be achieved this year, French EU Affairs Minister Laurence Boone and German Minister of State Anna Lührmann told Euractiv.
“This is one of the options we want to explore in order to maintain our position as a global player with the EU’s common foreign and security policy,” Lührmann said. He added that “it would be an important signal in other policy areas if we were to move to qualified majority voting already this year” and expressed confidence that this would happen.
The two ministers said that both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop.
Paris and Berlin claim abolishing the veto is a change that is possible without amending the EU treaties, a point hotly contested by a number of European parties, as it would not only give Brussels enormous power but also the largest states, such as Germany and France. (ER: Because some members are more equal than others.) This would subsequently allow for the EU to enact a liberal immigration policy, green rules and various other progressive goals without any hindrance from Hungary and other smaller, conservative nations.
The introduction of qualified majority voting would remove the veto on foreign policy issues, which would mean that only 15 of the 27 member states — representing 65 percent of the EU’s population — would have to agree to make particularly important foreign and defense policy decisions affecting the EU as a whole.
Laurence Boone told Euractiv that this would be “an important step toward greater integration and efficiency.”
However, the nature of such a system would favor countries with larger populations, such as France or Germany, while smaller states, such as Hungary, would lose the opportunity to have a say in EU decision-making.
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Featured image, French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Monday, June 12, 2023, at the Elysée palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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