19
May
2026
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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. The European Union needs change. Just not the kind of change you're discussing here. We have reached an unprecedented moment, a moment when we are witnessing the failure of the last decades of policies designed in this building and in the European Commission. More and more Europeans are sceptical about the European Union because of the lack of transparency, overregulation, rising costs of living, immigration, all policies created at the European level, in isolation from the will of the people. Symptomatically, the entity that most often breaks the treaties and breaks the law in the European Union, that is the European Commission, which is de facto Uncontrolled by anyone. And so we need reform, we need a return to our values, which you talk about so often. But the European Union is not their custodian. Their curator is the European nations. The best way would be to limit the power of the European Commission or to abolish it altogether.