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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa wrote to EU leaders calling for compliance with the agreement reached at the July EU summit on the upcoming seven-year framework budget and the EU recovery fund, which he said that the European Council and the European Parliament had undermined by bound by the rule of law, local press wrote on Wednesday.
In a letter to the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, among others, Jansa wrote that the rule of law must be respected in the EU, but also noted that “discredit mechanisms “They are politically motivated and cannot be called rule of law procedures.
“In all cases, Slovenia … supports respect for the rule of law without conditions or double standards,” added the Prime Minister.
Today, various media outlets and some political groups in the European Parliament openly threaten to discipline some EU Member States by majority vote using a procedure that is mistakenly called the “rule of law”.
“Those of us who have spent part of their lives under a totalitarian regime know that deviations from reality begin when processes or institutions whose essence reflects the exact opposite is given a name,” he emphasized.
On Monday, Hungary and Poland vetoed the EU’s € 1.8 billion framework budget plan for 2021-2027 and the regulation of a financial fund to repair the economic damage caused by the coronavirus epidemic by the introduction of the rule of law mechanism. .
Although Slovenia did not join the veto, Jansa felt that it would not be appropriate for a political body to decide in disputes over the rule of law.
“The rule of law means that disputes are decided by an independent court and not by any other institution with a political majority.”
He also pointed out that the Treaty on European Union did not allow any member state to be discriminated against in pursuit of a political initiative by any other member state or EU institution.
“We need EU institutions that are not involved in the internal political conflicts of the member states,” he added.
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