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The Hungarian Government has begun a systematic review of the powers of the European Union in order to uncover Brussels’ creeping expansion of its powers, the minister responsible for European affairs announced on Tuesday in Budapest.
János Bóka announced at a conference organized by the Nézőpont Institute entitled “The Rule of Law: Sovereignty and Excessive Powers in the European Union,” that the review had become necessary because the European Union now routinely expands its powers, which is a matter of sovereignty.
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He pointed out that the EU is based on the principle of the transfer of powers, meaning that Member States decide in which areas they wish to cooperate through the institutions; however, if this decision is taken out of the hands of the Member States, then Member State sovereignty is seriously undermined.
The purpose of the review of powers is to uncover the practice of this creeping expansion of powers in certain key areas, such as economic policy, energy policy, migration, the rule of law, education and culture, and family policy,
he added.
The Minister said that they would examine whether the division of powers between Member States and the EU in these areas is optimal. They are also looking for answers as to why EU instruments protecting Member State powers do not work in practice and how solutions could be introduced that would truly protect Member State sovereignty.
It is a political myth in the EU that the constant deepening of the integration process is necessary and encoded in the functioning of the institutional system, and those who object to this are questioning the essence of integration, said Bóka.
However, according to the sovereigntist position, he continued, the Member States are the masters of the future of integration. This is because they created and operate the EU with the aim of exercising certain powers jointly or through EU institutions where independent action by Member States is not effective enough. As he said, the Member States are the sole bearers of sovereignty, so only they can decide which powers they wish to exercise jointly.
In the Minister’s view, the tolerance that forms the basis of European cooperation is incompatible with the construction of a European empire, while European institutions exclude all those who disagree. The EU has carried out an unprecedented expansion of its powers under the guise of the rule of law, which it uses to exert open political pressure through the shameless application of double standards,
he argued.
The tools for this include the European Council’s rule of law dialogue, the Commission’s annual rule of law report, the justice scoreboard, the conditionality regulation, the system of horizontal enabling conditions applied to cohesion funds, and the Article 7 procedure. Furthermore, negotiations are underway on the next seven-year budget framework, where, based on the rule of law criteria, a Member State could be cut off from virtually all EU funds based on a completely arbitrary decision by the Commission, he said.
Róbert Répássy, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, said at the meeting that the Hungarian Government’s proposed solution to prevent the creeping expansion of powers could be to set up a European court of jurisdiction. This is because the Court of Justice of the European Union protects the powers of EU institutions, but there is no organization in the EU that protects the powers of Member States.
The Hungarian Government is willing to draft regulations to this effect. Furthermore, the National Assembly should define a negative list of powers, and a list of national powers, he added.
The politician expressed concern that the recommendations of the Venice Commission, which operates alongside the Council of Europe, which has no EU powers, are regularly reflected in official EU documents. At the same time, as an example of double standards, he stated that while Hungarian legislation was required to strengthen the National Judicial Council under the conditionality mechanism, five EU countries, including Austria and Germany, do not even have a self-governing body for judges. For this reason, these states are not members of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary.
Sámuel Mráz, head of the Nézőpont Institute, said that this year, for the second time, the institute had prepared a report on the rule of law in the EU, summarizing the problems of the institutional system.
These include financing structures, corruption without consequences, discrimination against certain political parties, and the fact that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) exert influence on EU decision-making without any contractual authority.
At the conference, Levente Boros Bánk, director of political analysis at Nézőpont, held a panel discussion with János Szilágyi, strategic director of the Central European Academy, and Lili Zemplényi, EU expert at Nézőpont.
Via MTI; Featured image: Hungary Today
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