EU makes another power grab to take countries’ money and deny them rights

EU set to to impose ‘Rule of Law’, remove veto, and change its own rules to do this

EU prepares to cut off funds within 7 months if it doesn’t like a member state’s laws

And these moves have relevance to ‘Brexit UK’
after the end of this year – see below

On Thursday in Brussels, the EU’s three main bodies – the Council, the Parliament, and the Commission – came together in their determination to change the rules of how they will deal with member states whose domestic laws the EU apparatchiks don’t like.

Parliament negotiators reached a provisional agreement with the Council presidency on 05 November on legislation establishing a mechanism that would allow the suspension of budget payments to a member state violating what the EU calls its “rule of law”.

The new procedures will only require qualified majority voting

Currently the EU can only impose sanctions against a member state, including the suspension of membership rights, under Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, if all member states including the alleged transgressors agree. This involves the principle of unanimity and means that an EU country can veto the proposed actions.

Under the new procedures this would no longer the case. Arch-federalist MEP Guy Verhofstadt was delighted, saying: "Agreement reached on a proper rule of law mechanism! EU funds are tied to EU values... No double standards, no excuses"

Here’s the EU Parliament on Thursday:-

“The decision on the suspension will have to be taken by the Council acting by a qualified majority on the proposal of the European Commission.”

What’s more, a country doesn’t need to commit an actual offence for the EU to cut off funds

The new draconian powers now planned by the EU do not require a member state actually to commit ‘an offence’ which might involve EU funding. The EU will be able to take action merely if it thinks this is possible.

Here is the EU Parliament on Thursday, 05 Nov 2020:-

“Crucially, MEPs succeeded in keeping a strong preventive aspect for the mechanism: not only can it be triggered when a breach is shown to directly affect the budget, but also when there is a serious risk that it may do so, thus ensuring that the mechanism prevents possible situations where EU funds could finance actions that are in conflict with EU values.”

Actions against a member state will be taken much more speedily

Again, here is the EU Parliament’s report on Thursday:-

“MEPs succeeded in shortening the time that the EU institutions will have for the adoption of measures against a member state, if risks of breaches of the rule of law are identified, to a maximum of 7-9 months (down from 12-13 months as initially requested by Council).
“The Commission, after establishing the existence of a breach, will propose to trigger the conditionality mechanism against an EU government. The Council then will have one month to adopt the proposed measures (or three months in exceptional cases), by a qualified majority. The Commission will use its rights to convene the Council to make sure the deadline is respected.”

The relevance to Brexit Britain and the Withdrawal Agreement

For years the EU has been extending its legal powers in the way we have reported in its latest moves above.

A good example of this is the Withdrawal Agreement it drafted, in collusion with the Theresa May Government and her civil servants. Regardless of any compromised trade deal which might be put together in the coming days, the Withdrawal Agreement guarantees the EU legal oversight over parts of the UK’s laws and parts of its day-to-day operations – both now and in the future.

The EU wants this oversight (in its Withdrawal Agreement with the UK and in these new rules for member states) as a stick with which to keep awkward states in line with its authoritarian neo-liberal agenda.

And this includes the United Kingdom.

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See our ‘Summary of the Summaries’ of the legal case
against the Withdrawal Agreement here.

The latest move by the EU on Thursday shows how the EU has lost none of its appetite for legal domination of its remaining members, and of the United Kingdom.

Observations

Year after year the EU has extended its powers and has made no secret of its ambition to become a superstate, subsuming all member countries into a monolithic bloc run from Brussels.

Our report above is just one more example of how the EU is determined to rule everything in Europe, according to laws and directives devised by federal fanatics in the Commission and in the EU Parliament.

Like most people, the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team loves Europe. We enjoy and celebrate the different experiences to be had when visiting different countries. Every year, thanks to EU apparatchiks, these differences diminish and so do some of the pleasures of experiencing life in free countries.

It’s not too late to keep up the pressure on the Government

At the end of this year it is essential that the United Kingdom moves as far away from the EU’s creeping, totalitarian homogeneity as possible. We really hope the UK can be a beacon of light to freedom-lovers everywhere.

If you agree, can you please help us to keep fighting for a free, independent, and sovereign United Kingdom? You can do this by sending a letter to Boris Johnson and to your MP, as part of the ‘Big Brexit Initiative’ of 16 major Brexit organisations we organised last week.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

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Reader Comments 32

1. Fredo, from one of the Shires , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 06:56:

Proves how right we were to leave and how essential it is for Boris to repudiate the withdrawal agreement. Can't have these people having any say over our laws any longer.

2. Sam Black , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 08:03:

We want OUT of this clown ORGANISATION.....!

3. Enryte , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 08:15:

The problem is that our clown of a prime minister is going to stick with the circus.

4. Ashley Great Britain , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 08:20:

We all know what needs to be done. All eyes are on boris for his next move.
Its eerily quiet and the days are passing by.
This is about the future and independence of Britain.
Drop the withdrawal "non" agreement now mr Johnson.
The shows over.

5. RE Veteran , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 08:34:

I saw this coming years ago when we got the first directives and everyone thought it was a joke, it's far from a joke as you can imagine.The EU is like a creeping weed that devours and smothers everything in it's path, like Germany in WW2 but without the armed conflict. When they start threatening other countries what will they do next if the countries refuse to tow the line? March in with stormtroopers from the EU army that;'s what, just history repeating itself and I hope the 25 realise what is going on and leave this failed experiment too for their own sake. Germany tried with force before and it was Hitlers dream to have a European superstate controlled by Berlin, now it's become a reality by closed door politics of the nasty EU. The EU is becoming the EUSSR.

6. Eleanor Baxter , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 09:41:

They're nothing more than a dictatorship!

7. Sydney Ashurst , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 09:51:

If it wasn't for the money the Visegrad group would pull out tomorrow
Now that they are being threatened with the money being withdrawn what will they do?
In Poland it is a question of Religion and abortion.

8. Buster , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 10:10:

The withdrawal agreement was passed in this Parliament by Boris Johnson’s government. It is a rubbish deal but it is Brexit. It is not the fault of anyone who voted Remain that Brexit is as shit as we told you it would be. And we will ensure that you Brexiteers own the blame.

9. Sydney Ashurst , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 10:10:

Why is it that the only source of information on the continuing Brexit talks is the Express. Most of the media can only think about Coronavirus and the US elections.
The Prime Minister will speak with Ursula von der Leyen later today to discuss the state-of-play in the deadlocked trade talks. The move comes after Lord Frost, Mr Johnson's chief negotiator, was in Brussels to speak face-to-face with his European Union counterpart Michel Barnier earlier this week.
Talking to Express.co.uk this morning, a Whitehall source toned down any prospect of a deal from today’s events but stressed that “common patterns” were being investigated across several issues.
Continuing talks with the wrong outcome will split the Conservative Party. Nigel Farage is still in the wings.

10. s yorks , Saturday, November 07, 2020, 10:15:

dear bluster ,
voting for elected accountable leaders is the most important thing, you cannot create a fair and just society when they are unelected and immune from prosecution like the EU 'leaders', funny that this is similar to 1930's germany !
Any hardship is worth it !!

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