19
May
2026
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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Fanatics of the centralisation of the European Union will use any possible situation to expand the institutional competences of the European Union at the expense of the loss of the sovereignty afforded by the Treaties to the 27 Member States. That's the way it is this time. The changing geopolitical situation in the world is an excellent pretext for the European Commission to bring even more of its dominance into European politics. We don't agree to that. It is sovereign states, not the European Commission, that shape their foreign policy according to their interests and needs. That's how it is and it should stay that way. The European Union has no right to tell Member State governments how to respond to changing global challenges. The European Commission should help Member States and not impose its visions on them contrary to their competences under the Treaties. The Union should focus only and exclusively on solving the most important problems that it has often caused itself, on protecting our external borders from the invasion of illegal immigrants and the extradition of those who are staying here illegally, on providing cheap energy by developing nuclear energy and saving European industry from the tragic...