Europe's Recipe for Disaster: The Von der Leyen Program
by Drieu Godefridi • August 2, 2024 at 5:00 am
[T]his reduction [of greenhouse gas emissions] structures and determines the whole of the Commission's program, because all human activity -- industrial, commercial and private -- emits greenhouse gases. In fact, in a program document published by the Commission in February 2024, already under the aegis of von der Leyen, are plans to invest 1.5 trillion euros per year in decarbonizing the European Union, and to this end take authoritarian measures in all areas of human activity. The amount is equivalent to 10% of Europe's GDP -- every year. Apparently this policy is the uncompromising model found in every party in Germany, but apart from a war effort, there is no objective of any kind that has ever required the diversion of 10% of a continent's GDP by political decree.
European funds, which are distributed to EU member states in various ways, will henceforth be "conditional on respect for the rule of law"... In other words, any deviation from the EU's ideological line, in any area, will be subject to financial sanctions - as is already happening with Hungary. This new direction for the EU will lead to the ideology of Western Europe being imposed on Eastern Europe: "open borders", environmentalism, the fight against "hate" -- but only "hate" from the right of the political spectrum.
In particular, the aim is apparently to penalize social media networks that refuse to censor their users or, more precisely, that refuse to penalize their users in the way the EU wants... either X submits to the EU's ideology and censorship, or X will have a part of its global revenue confiscated.
Again and again, the suggestion is set forth to build a European army, essentially supported by states such as Germany and Belgium, which... would already be incapable of defending their own borders without American assistance.
[I]n accordance with the ECHR's case law, any illegal immigrants intercepted in the Mediterranean, even within sight of the African coast, must be brought to the European Union to exercise their "rights." A tenfold increase in the number of border guards would do nothing to change the law in force; as long as the law is not reformed, unlimited and unvetted migration in Europe will continue.
[A] whole series of new regulations with global ambitions are announced, confirming the EU's claim to legislate not just for Europe, but for the world. For instance, a "European Oceans Pact" -- note the "s" in Oceans – is declared: evidently the EU claims to regulate all the world's oceans, whereas it only dips its toes in one.
Of these groups, the center-right is by far the largest.... [But] It is the demands of the smallest group — environmentalists — that dominate....
By refusing on principle ever to govern with real right-wing parties, the center-right guarantees that the left remains forever in power.
In a speech to the European Parliament on July 18, 2024, the President of the European Commission, Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, an outspoken environmentalist, set out her program for its next five years. Here are some of the salient aspects of her proposal, strictly in line with her previous term of office.
