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This is all an interesting and important message because last week’s political vetoes in Hungary and Poland stemming from the discussions on the rule of law revived public discourse both at home and among Poles about possible exit from the EU. The Slovenian prime minister has also warned of the possibility of this happening, that he will otherwise be the leader of the country that will hold the rotating EU presidency in the second half of 2021.
In Poland, this exit debate has intensified in recent days to the point that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawieczki already had to calm his temper on Facebook this Monday. Emphasized that Poland says ‘yes’ to EU membership but it “vigorously rejects” the criteria of the rule of law that allow ideological blackmail. Recent developments in the veto are featured in this feed:
According to Antonio Costa (left in the image above), both the Hungarian and Polish budget vetoes have highlighted that some see the EU only as “an economic instrument that creates value”, while others see the EU as a community of values. According to Costa, we now see a clash of these two views and according to The Telegraph, he sees:
This situation can be addressed without institutionalizing other EU Member States by institutionalizing the two-speed EU model.
By the way, the French president has been pushing for this for a long time, the Central and Eastern European member states are afraid of him (because they feel excluded from the inner circle, which hurts them), and the German Chancellor is against it. A good example of the latter is what we wrote today in our veto feed, which states that Angela Merkel continues to believe that the Hungarian-Polish couple should not be left out of the EU crisis management. so you are not thinking of bypassing us (as such a plan was leaked from the French last week, but then on Monday the French finance minister already said emphatically that there is no such plan B to bypass the two countries because they want us to the two countries reconsider themselves and support the budget).
The two-speed EU advocated by Costa would mean (for example, in the context of enhanced cooperation that can be launched by at least 9 Member States – ed.) Those who support deeper political integration would form an inner circle, while those who do not if they did they would be left out. According to Costa this would be beneficial because, on the one hand, everyone would remain a member of the EU and, on the other, there would be no need to open up the subject of complex and lengthy discussions on the EU Treaty. At the same time, Costa also suggested the need for a “fundamental debate” on the future of the EU with countries like Hungary and Poland, which oppose Brussels on the rule of law, gay rights and migration.
As the leader of a relatively poorer EU member state, that is, in need of cohesion policy resources, Costa last year and again this year “brought together” representatives of an EU member state formation called Friends of Cohesion for a 17-member meeting in Lisbon (pictured above on February 1 this year). It also follows from this that, according to the report, it has now also somewhat stabbed the Dutch, who were criticized for being reluctant to give more support in the summer to establish an EU recovery fund (the German-French proposal and after the Commission it included 500 billion euros, largely finally cut to 390 billion euros due to opposition from the Dutch).
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