Édouard BALLADUR - EUROPE AND OUR SOVEREIGNTY - EUROPE IS NECESSARY, FRANCE TOO

Reviewing the division of competences between the Union and the Member States, taking greater account of demographic balances within the Union, and clarifying the role of national and supranational judges: these are the priorities of a necessary tidying-up. [...] Progress has been made, but in a disorderly fashion that has allowed the European technostructure to increase its power still further, as evidenced by the often excessive and clumsy statements made by the current President of the Commission, who oversteps her powers at the expense of those of the European Council, made up of the States, which is the supreme body of the European Union. [...] One of the worst faults of the European Union is the suffocating aspect of the bureaucracy in the hands of a technostructure that imposes its choices in defiance of democratic functioning, facilitating the authoritarian interventionism of the Commission. [...] Europe is necessary, France too Therefore, the code should be very precise on the definition of the Union's competences, on the procedures for examination by the Commission, and on the respective prerogatives of the President of the European Council, elected for several years, and the President of the Council of the European Union, who changes every six months. [...] Reviewing the division of competences between the Union and the Member States, taking greater account of demographic balances within the Union, and clarifying the role of national and supranational judges: these are the priorities of a necessary tidying-up.