Jörg Meuthen
EU Unanimity Principle
Facebook, Prof. Dr. Jörg
Meuthen, April 28,
2019
[Jörg Meuthen is a national
chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and is the AfD’s lead candidate in
this month’s European Parliament elections.]
Dear reader, many political events are fairly unspectacular, yet
have for us citizens wide-ranging consequences – and indeed nothing good.
What is presently planned by the EU Commission in Brussels – and
indeed widely unnoticed by the public, especially by the German public – is
unfortunately once again precisely such as event.
And this time it’s really in a pickle. It’s especially about the
question whether in the future other states are to be allowed to make decisions
concerning money earned in Germany and other stability-oriented states. Yet it
proceeds without further ado. Namely, there was until now in the EU concerning
tax and social issues the principle of unanimity. This defends Germany from
other countries being able to make, without Germany’s agreement, determinations
which are detrimental to our country and thereby to the wealth of we, the
citizens. This unanimity principle is the last bulwark within the EU against
the redistributory wishes of the economically weak states. Germany in the past
could block with a veto all that did not seem sensible (like every other state!).
Thus, there will now be a decision when it is according to the EU
Commission. Henceforth, given the figures of this body, questions in the future
shall be considered according to a definite majority principle which, after
Brexit, will weaken the northern countries vis-à-vis the southern countries, to
which France also belongs. The result makes it possible for the self-styled
rescue Europeans à la Juncker to smooth the way for still much more
redistribution from north to south within the EU. A further left-green dream
becomes true.
Redistribution, that means nothing other than the money which you,
dear reader, have hard-earned here in Germany shall be received somewhere else
in the EU and there be expended.
An example of what will very quickly follow upon the doing away
with the unanimity principle is the overt financing of the prevailing
unemployment in the southern EU states – only one calls this offspring
something other, namely, “European unemployment insurance”. Thus is no way to
come to grips with the roots of the problem, the completely false design of the
euro, of which the absence of a devaluation possibility between participating
states leaves the economically weaker countries ever less competitive, cements
the present unemployment and allows it to increase even further. What is
ultimately wanted for other countries is the diligence of the worker in
Germany. Precisely so, however, is the European project destroyed, since the
more these redistribution-tormented people in the northern EU states see
through this wretched trick, and then feel it in their own purse, just so will
the discontent with this EU become the greater.
It is precisely that which we of the Alternative for Germany do
not want. We want an EU of strong nations [Vaterländer]
which solve in their own sovereignty all that is not actually better taken up
in Brussels – with all the positive and negative consequences for the respective
country.
This unity of decision and liability must be valid throughout the EU
so as to avoid unrest between the individual countries. Unfortunately, this
Juncker-Merkel-Macron EU continues in exactly the opposite direction, a fatal
wrong way, which is to be stopped on May 26th.
It is time to stop this wrong way on May 26th. It is time for the
AfD.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
