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13 December 2023

Europe

Politics

All in for the Spitzenkandidaten! – Who knows if this time the French sexy boy, having pulled Lady Ursula out of the hat last time by breaking the Spitzenkandidaten, will ignore the election results or not? Meanwhile, the Draghi boys are looking for apartments in Brussels. Hard to say if it’s just to help him prepare the EU competitiveness report or perhaps for something bigger?

Source: MIT Content von Dow Jones

On Tuesday, the European Parliament adopted proposals for more democratic European elections next year. The report was adopted with 365 votes in favor, 178 against and 71 abstentions. Specifically, the EU Parliament is calling for a further increase in participation in the European elections from June 4 to 9, 2024. MEPs are pushing for a clear link between the will of the voters and the election of the Commission President. Immediately after the European elections, MEPs are to make a proposal for a joint candidate before the EU states submit a proposal to the Council for the appointment of the President of the Commission.

The lead candidate of the party with the most seats in Parliament should lead the process in the first round of negotiations and the President of Parliament should steer it if necessary. In addition, the parties and political groups should reach a "legislative agreement" in order to secure a majority in Parliament. According to the EU Parliament, this would provide a basis for the Commission's work program and a guarantee for European voters that the measures will be coherent after the election.

Parliament also calls on the Council to swiftly adopt the new EU electoral law and the new rules for European political parties and foundations so that the latter at least apply to the 2024 elections.

"The electorate needs clarity about how their vote will affect the personnel and policies of the EU," said CDU MEP Sven Simon. "The Spitzenkandidat procedure must become credible again. Whoever is elected President of the new Commission needs a clear mandate from the electorate and a majority in Parliament," Simon explained.

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Ursula and Merz: make us laugh! The two Germans are convinced that they can play Trump cleverly. The first imitates the moves of Junker, who proposed buying more soybeans from the US to distract Trump, and suggests that the EU buy more US LNG to avoid tariffs. The latter lives in a parallel universe and even fantasizes about a trade agreement with the US. Poor Europe is now a continent victimized by itself. And to think that the damage caused by the tariffs could be largely covered by issuing common debt for at least 40 percent of European GDP is unbelievable.

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God willing, they may begin to awaken from their long hibernation. Badger Europe may begin to realize what is taken for granted elsewhere. In some frugal countries, such as Denmark, the need for a common debt is beginning to sink in. And in Germany, the taboo on debt brake reform is beginning to fall. Who knows if Merz will slowly come around. There is no hope for Ferber, for whom austerity is a religion

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“Europe must act in unity or it won’t survive” – Mario Draghi’s prophecy shakes Europe’s sleepy palaces of power and points out the obvious. The problem is that it would take a miracle (or at least a little more democracy) to get Europeans to act united

The thousand lives of Mario Draghi – Supermario shakes up the Union by proposing ‘radical change’ to compete with China and the United States. During the presentation of his report on European competitiveness, the former president of the ECB shows he’s a major candidate for a leading role after the elections, with a broad consensus, from Macron to Orbán. The key point of his speech seems to be that there’s great need for more industrial integration. Easy to say, harder to achieve

The axis has broken down – The key fact that emerges from these Europeans is undoubtedly the failure of the war alliance between the Petit Napoleon in France and Olaf Scholz in Germany, soundly beaten by the right wing parties. And with them the bellicose policies that failed to mobilise the voters. But in general, apart from France, across the continent there is a collapse of Renew, Macron political project, which will fall from the current 102 to around 80 seats in the future parliament

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You can’t make this stuff up – Charles Michel announces that he will not run in the next European elections, ending his mandate at the European Council: Mario Draghi’s candidacy has been burnt, while the chances of seeing Sànchez as his successor are increasing. Michel made the announcement on Facebook, but then decided to block comments. Indeed, there are many who have not understood the motives behind his moves: can one man consistently make strategic mistakes of this magnitude?

The farce of the Weimar Triangle – There could not have been a better place for the meeting between Macron, Scholz and Tusk: a show designed to project unity where there is only division. Scholz rules out an escalation, preferring the idea of supplying the Ukrainians with arms and ammunition; Poland is a protagonist in the war, and it could not be otherwise. Finally, Petit-Napoleon considers Putin to be an ‘existential threat’, but only because Le Pen (the next president according to the polls) has joined the allied positions

The EU desperately searching for a leader… – At this rate, in addition to the damage of non-existence as a geopolitical player, the EU is also in danger of getting on China’s, Russia’s and the USA’s nerves at the same time. A masterpiece of diplomacy by Scholz (S&D) and Macron (Renew). With the former no longer knowing which way to turn and still applying the mercantilist model with two ongoing wars , worrying not to give Putin too many alibis as if the latter did not already have enough. And the second who takes one step forward and three backwards thinking that France is still living in Napoleon’s times. Who knows if the Franco-German axis that has led the EU to catastrophe will be replaced by an East-South one

A fight to the last MEP – With the feeling of being surrounded by the right and the left, Giorgia Meloni wants to muster the numbers to reach a parliamentary representation of 84 members, which would allow her to become the third force, surpassing Renew of the detested Petit Napoleon. In this sense should be interpreted the ‘no’ to Viktor Orban’s entry into the ECR, which would have represented an extremeisation of the group unwelcome by many