21
Nov
2023
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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)
Mr President, frankly, people are fed up with the fact that the European Union comes with dictates every time, saying ‘you have to cut the budget of your schools, your nurseries, your hospitals, you have to work longer, for less money’. Frankly, neither can people have this Europe without transparency, without democracy, without being listened to. And in this context, what does a coalition of Green Socialist Liberals propose here? This means more power for the European Union and less democracy within it. Frankly, aren’t you ashamed to even propose a commissioner, ha no pardon, a secretary for austerity? This means that this austerity, these budget cuts, you want to institutionalize them even more. People can’t do it anymore, it won’t pass. And you propose, what? No more war? You want to take away the right, for example from Belgium, to say no when it comes to sending Belgian soldiers abroad. Because that is the shift from unanimity to majority voting. You don’t admit it, you don’t assume it, well people won’t accept it.