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Of Francesco Cancellato
While the Meseberg summit between France and Germany gave birth to downward compromises and about-faces, Hungary has included a ban on helping migrants in its Constitution. If this was the window of opportunity to save the Union, it is already double locked
The plastic representation of the endless crisis of Europeanism is given to us by two events of the last two days. In the right corner, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, which inserts into the Constitution the ban on welcoming migrants and a one-year prison sentence for anyone who helps them, in what the media defined as the anti-Soros law. In the left corner, in what should be the cultural opposition to Orban, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, than from Meseberg Castle of their bilateral summit on the major reform of the eurozone, they come out with a joint declaration on the repatriations of asylum seekers to the countries of first landing, i.e. Italy and Greece.
If it were a Puzzle Week game we would say "spot the differences".If it was supposed to be an answer to Budapest, the Franco-German move is the perfect assist for Matteo Salvini to replicate the policies of his Hungarian master. And indeed, as per the script, he has already threatened – pardon: threatened by Prime Minister Conte -di desert Sunday's summit with France, Germany and Spain and to close the Italian borders, if France and Germany try to impose what they promised.
If it were a Puzzle Week game we would say "spot the differences".If it was supposed to be an answer to Budapest, the Franco-German move is the perfect assist for Matteo Salvini to replicate the policies of his Hungarian master. And indeed, as per the script, he has already threatened – pardon: threatened by Prime Minister Conte -di desert Sunday's summit with France, Germany and Spain and to close the Italian borders, if France and Germany try to impose what they promised.
We were Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini, Marine Le Pen and assorted Eurosceptic company would be rubbing our hands: super-fucks like those of Meseberg are in fact the best proof of the ineptitude of pro-European leaders to solve the continent's problems and of the ineffectiveness of the intergovernmental method, which Merkel continues to defend in defiance of all reasonableness
It's not the first time this has happened, within a few days. The strange Italian-Hungarian alliance in opposing the draft reform of the Dublin Regulation a few weeks ago, however paradoxical it may seem – Italy needs the redistribution of asylum seekers on a continental basis more than ever, Hungary opposes with all its strength – he has his reasons. Unless you think that a reform that comes into force in ten years and which provides for a partial redistribution of migrants only if landings exceed 160% those of the previous year is an acceptable compromisee, Obviously. And not, Instead, yet another demonstration that the intergovernmental method of management of the European Union is capable of only giving birth to useless mice like this one.
Mickey Mouse like those who emerged from the great summit of Meseberg Castle between France and Germany, last Tuesday. Which, despite all of Emmanuel Macron's rhetoric on the great reform of Europe, has given birth, in addition to the about-turn on asylum seekers, a European budget worth "a few tens of billions", like saying a fart in space, and the indefinite postponement of the European guarantee on bank deposits. And this, let's remember it, it is the ambitious Franco-German draft that will be proposed, and will have to find the approval of others 17 Much less ambitious countries. Best wishes and sons.
We were Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini, Marine Le Pen and assorted Eurosceptic company would be rubbing our hands: super-fucks like those of Meseberg are in fact the best proof of the ineptitude of pro-European leaders to solve the continent's problems and of the ineffectiveness of the intergovernmental method, which Merkel continues to defend in defiance of all reasonableness, in producing decisions that are not the worst possible downward compromise. The perfect advertisement for another idea of Europe, even weaker than the states that compose it, even less supportive within it, even more Fortress than it is now. If this – the one between Brexit and the European elections of 28 maggio 2019 – it was the last useful opportunity to complete the Union, defeat is almost certain. (…)
Mickey Mouse like those who emerged from the great summit of Meseberg Castle between France and Germany, last Tuesday. Which, despite all of Emmanuel Macron's rhetoric on the great reform of Europe, has given birth, in addition to the about-turn on asylum seekers, a European budget worth "a few tens of billions", like saying a fart in space, and the indefinite postponement of the European guarantee on bank deposits. And this, let's remember it, it is the ambitious Franco-German draft that will be proposed, and will have to find the approval of others 17 Much less ambitious countries. Best wishes and sons.
We were Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini, Marine Le Pen and assorted Eurosceptic company would be rubbing our hands: super-fucks like those of Meseberg are in fact the best proof of the ineptitude of pro-European leaders to solve the continent's problems and of the ineffectiveness of the intergovernmental method, which Merkel continues to defend in defiance of all reasonableness, in producing decisions that are not the worst possible downward compromise. The perfect advertisement for another idea of Europe, even weaker than the states that compose it, even less supportive within it, even more Fortress than it is now. If this – the one between Brexit and the European elections of 28 maggio 2019 – it was the last useful opportunity to complete the Union, defeat is almost certain. (…)
