Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden are pushing to explore the idea of moving from unanimity to qualified majority in foreign policy.
Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden are pushing to explore the idea of moving from unanimity to qualified majority in foreign policy.
Viktor Orban is a rich powerful authoritarian, in the pocket of bigger more powerful authoritarians.
Neither he, nor the people funding him are vulnerable minorities.
If a rich guy hires a Mafia that sends poor people to do their dirty work, you don’t make laws against being poor.
Make laws that actually solve problems, keep the weak safe from rich assholes’ manipulation, to make the Mafia weaker.
All the various “right-wing” authoritarians around Europe, are getting to power, by fucking Ginormous amounts of corruption. Greece, where I’m from, is one such joke.
Europe should protect the sanctity of those power structures, to prevent people like Orban from getting to power, instead of taking the lazy, short term way out, that leaves the Union weaker and easier to internally take over by the fascist bastards, later.
I see so your suggestion is to make a government that has never functionally exist before and not eliminate something based on how it has actually been used the vast majority of the time but rather protect it based on your idealized version of how it could be used in your fantasy government.
I am sure all the people who will suffer in the meantime support your fantasy.
What. What are you talking about. I just said “Don’t remove Veto power”. That’s a whole different sentence you got there.
Literally current day Europe.
Criminals sell drugs. Doesn’t matter how strong a police you got, and how criminalized drugs are, drugs will be sold because Criminals want money and power. They’re just gonna get more expensive, and more harmful to the buyers. Look into the prohibition of alcohol half a century ago.
The rich and powerful, want power. They want to buy governments, in order to change the rules in their favor.
The stronger you make some governments, in comparison to others, the stronger you make the rich that can buy them, since those rich can just sway and control the weaker governments via influencing the stronger one.
Removing veto power to fight Orban and his rich backers, allows the rich of the European core to do whatever the fuck they want to the poorer European countries.
I can also seperately argue that it doesn’t even work to fight Orban and his backers, but I don’t even need to. Even if it did work, paving over the poor and vulnerable for gain, instead of finding another solution, is fascistic. There’s always countless other ways.
There’s nothing imaginary about this, colonial history is littered with dozens upon dozens of examples.
These political restructurings, are documented steps toward fascism, and they’re being taken right now.