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Last week, the European Union celebrated an important anniversary. Seventy years ago, on May 9, 1950, the French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, presented the Schuman Declaration on the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community, which was the first in a series of European institutions that it would eventually become the EU of today. Built from the ruins of World War II, in an attempt to establish peace through economic collaboration, the original six-member EU grew to include 28 countries over the years, and only one of them So far, the UK has gone.
However, keeping the EU alive and well has been incredibly difficult. The economic challenges, the immigration crisis, unemployment and a growing nationalism in several of the member states are just some of the challenges that the bloc has faced over the years.
The most recent is the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the EU to close its borders, something that has not happened during its 70 years of existence.
With the challenges facing the coronavirus pandemic, growing nationalism and anti-EU movements, and a not-so-stable economy, the 70th anniversary has found the EU in an existential crisis like never before.
As many wonder if the bloc will survive, former Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman shed light on his time in Brussels in a recent report for the Eurosceptic think tank ‘Red Cell’ titled “After Rue Belliard”.
In the report, Cambpell reflected on how the EU works and what makes the institution so deeply undemocratic.
He argued that once inside the European Parliament, it was incredibly easy to see where the real power lies: even with the European Commission and the Council.
The prominent Brexiteer wrote: “Too often I just sat there listening and thinking: you know, if I reported what I’m hearing now, people at home would think I’m a maniac, an extremist, wildly exaggerating.
“But it is here in front of me, it is real. The fact that the EU was misinformed and considered irrelevant to most, including many parliamentarians, was a big problem. It was not irrelevant, but it was bad.”
“That was my moment at Churchill, when you think Churchill was branded as a warmonger for actually reporting the dangers of German rearmament and being kicked out of the BBC until 1939 … so how do you tell people what’s really happening here?
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“Just look at the voting lists and the colorful voting table that appears after every registered electronic vote (Nominal Votes) and see how outnumbered we were on most issues of difference.
“Even with a large national delegation: we conservatives had 20 MEPs, the Brexit Party at its peak 29 MEPs; this is all too often lost in a chamber of 751 MEPs (in my time).”
Campbell Bannermann added: “Take a look at where the real power lies in the EU: the federalist-led central EPP (European People’s Party) and the federalist-loving Socialist (SD) and Liberal (ALDE Group) blocs: these are blocks The willing sheep of the EU, its little helpers to the royal powers in the Commission and the Council.
“If these three blocks favor EU legislation, all resistance is useless.”
The European Parliament favors political books, Campbell Bannermann noted, in order to incentivize cross-country parties in the future.
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He concluded: “This Parliament is destined to be democratic, very often the expellers will rebuke you:” But you are elected. Of course, the EU is democratic. “
“Not if you understand power structures and numbers.
“And how is the EU left in the face of such power, resources and numbers against it?
“Nigel Farage was really an opposition from one person in this sea of consensus, and he instinctively said what many of us think.”
