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** 'Superauthoritarian Governance': Abolish the European Union, the Sooner the Better ([link removed])
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by Robert Williams • August 3, 2026 at 5:00 am
* Even former high-ranking officials from the institutions of the European Union are beginning to speak out against the undemocratic regime of the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable European Commission -- especially under its senior bureaucrat, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
* The European Commission was never meant to have any power beyond what its EU member states granted it.
* "My concept of the mission was to establish a law enforcement authority to help nation state authorities protect their borders, not to be an NGO or a humanitarian agency." — Fabrice Leggeri, former Executive Director of Frontex, the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, The European Conservative, May 27, 2024.
* Currently, [the EU unanimity rules] ensure that in sensitive policy areas... every EU member state has a veto right. Von der Leyen wants to change that to just a majority decision.
* "In a normal parliamentary system, part of the MPs support the government and part support the opposition. In the European Parliament, this arrangement has been missing... Here, only one single alternative is being promoted, and those who dare think about a different option are labelled as enemies of European integration.... with no opposition, there is no freedom. That is why political alternatives must exist." — Václav Klaus, former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, February 19, 2009.

Even former high-ranking officials from the institutions of the European Union are beginning to speak out against the undemocratic regime of the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable European Commission -- especially under its senior bureaucrat, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Pictured: Von der Leyen at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on July 18, 2024. (Photo by Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)

Even former high-ranking officials from the institutions of the European Union are beginning to speak out against the undemocratic regime of the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable European Commission -- especially under its senior bureaucrat, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

"Today, the Commission is trying to take control. That's not in line with the [EU] treaty," said Charles Michel, former president of the European Council and Belgium's former prime minister, in a recent interview. "There is a super-authoritarian governance," he added.

The European Commission was never meant to have any power beyond what its EU member states granted it. Michel, however, noted that the EU, by using the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and other crises, has expanded its authority into areas that were always intended to remain in the hands of member states.

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