EXCLUSIVE: ‘Ice-Queen Ursula’ – how a bureaucrat got to negotiate with the US President

The last two weeks in the life of an EU functionary, seemingly ruling by divine right

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A Facts4EU.Org report on ‘Queen Ursula of Germano-Europa’ - the head of a group of functionaries

Below we present an exclusive picture of the enormous democratic deficit at the very heart of the ‘European Project’, back into which so many members of the UK’s Establishment are determined to drag the British people.

In the last 14 days the EU Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, negotiating with no popular mandate, has held bilateral meetings with the following.

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Two weeks in the life of an EU functionary

Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (27 Feb 2023)
His Majesty King Charles III (27 Feb)
The Prime Minister of Denmark (02 Mar)
The Prime Minister of Sweden (02 Mar)
Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (05 Mar)
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece (06 Mar)
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (07-08 Mar)
His Majesty’s Governor-General of Canada
Joe Biden, President of the United States of America (10 Mar)

[Sources: EU Commission | Government sites | Twitter.]

Does this bureaucrat have the mandate to negotiate with Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors?

Frau von der Leyen is the elected representative of no country or people.

In 2019 she was appointed to her role as the EU’s ‘bureaucrat-in-chief’ at the last minute, nominated by outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel when the democratic procedures which had been agreed between the EU Council and the EU Parliament were summarily bypassed.

Such appointments are usually rubber-stamped by MEPs but in this case they barely endorsed it – Frau von der Leyen scraped though by just a handful of approvals.

She holds no popular mandate and was parachuted into the role. Her previous job was Defence Minister in Berlin, having been what the German media considered to be the least effective minister in Merkel’s government. Few fighter jets could fly, tanks were routinely out of service, and German troops even turned up on NATO exercises without rifles.

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What is the EU’s democratic legitimacy supposed to be based on?

The diminutive former Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel is supposedly the EU Council President, representing the leaders of the 27 EU countries. This is where the power in the EU is supposed to lie, based on the policies of these elected politicians.

Unfortunately, it appears he has been completely overrun by the Germanic juggernaut of Frau von der Leyen and her bloated team of technocrats. His territory has been occupied, seemingly without a fight.

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Just two examples of the EU Commission President’s democratic interference

1. Bilateral negotiations with President Joe Biden, 10 Mar 2023

Here is the list of topics negotiated at the White House by the unelected EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, and her team of technocrats from Brussels.

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the EU Green Deal Industrial Plan
Climate change and net zero measures
Global infrastructure and investment
Sustainable development goals
Putin’s Russia and the world energy markets
Military support for Ukraine
Economic security and national security

[Sources: EU Commission | White House.]

2. “ICE, ICE Baby” – Bilateral negotiations interfering in internal German politics

This particular instance of Ursula von der Leyen exceeding her role relates to the German government's refusal to sign off on the EU ban on the sale of new combustion-engine vehicles from 2035. (ICE = Internal Combustion Engine )

The EU Parliament approved the law on 23 February 2023. It requires car-makers to ensure they achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions from new cars sold from 2035. The law also requires a 55% cut in CO2 emissions for new cars sold from 2030, over 2021 levels.

There's been growing opposition to this EU ban from several EU member states – Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, and Germany, and now joined by Czechia.

In this combustion-engine ban, it's not the Commission's job to try to persuade Germany to back down. Nor is it its job to barter a deal with a single member state. Nonetheless, Frau von der Leyen had a high-profile meeting with Chancellor Scholz ahead of her big trip to the US.

Frau von der Leyen got no joy getting Germany to back down from its condition. We should mention that Germany has a coalition government and significant elements of it have strong and opposing views. Despite this the EU Commission President saw fit to interfere in domestic German politics.

Observations

In the Court of the EU’s Ice-Queen, ruling by divine right now seems to have become the norm. It seems the EU’s top civil servant thinks she can dictate policy and then negotiate it with the world’s leaders, without any elected leader of the EU27 countries being present.

For years eurosceptics have looked on in distaste as the civil servants managing the EU’s ever-expanding empire have taken more and more powers unto themselves. In the realm of ‘Queen Ursula of Germano-Europa’, however, this has surged to hitherto unseen levels of arrogance.

The EU is not a country, nor (yet) a ‘superstate’ and the EU Commission certainly does not represent the governments of the 27 member countries. Despite this, Ursula von der Leyen is at every world gathering – be it the UN General Assembly, the G7, the G20, addressing national parliaments – on equal terms with entire countries. She is now holding bilateral negotiations with world leaders up to and including the President of the United States.

Here is our question for Rejoiners

“How can you seriously propose the United Kingdom once again subjects itself to autocratic and undemocratic rule by an empire such as this?”

We already know that Rejoiners have no respect for democracy, as witnessed by their refusal to accept the result of the largest democratic vote in British history, but when will they come out and say “No, the EU isn’t democratic but we like it that way”?

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Reader Comments 8

1. terence patrick hewett , Monday, March 13, 2023, 08:18:

Except that the EU's share of world trade, shrinks at the rate of 1% every 3 years: the EU's share of world trade used to be 30%, now it is under 15% and still shrinking. Once the UK joins the CPTPP trade bloc, the rejoiniac's wet dream of EU membership will finally have a stake put through it's rotten heart. And agreements such as AUKUS only make their case even more hopeless.

2. jon livesey , Monday, March 13, 2023, 14:59:

Off topic, but once again the UK fixes serious banking problem over a weekend. No doubt we will be hearing bout how wonderful the ECB's actions are as they slowly leak out over the next month.

3. Plutus , Monday, March 13, 2023, 15:55:

Why is it then, that you reserved comment when unelected Frost was negotiating a deal he'd later resign over because even he didn't think it was that fantastic, even though it was initially paraded as such.
There was no accountability when it became obvious that it was an awful deal - he got a title instead.
That too is a democratic deficit. So ,the only moral democratic deficit belongs to the UK?
You've learnt nothing & forgotten nothing - the only reliable characteristics of divine right.
"ThE eStABLiShMeNt" is not what will lead us back into the EU - it'll be citizens pushing to regain lost rights & national sanity. Ridiculous culture wars have revealed the Conservatives to be a non-serious, if not reckless, self-enrichment enterprise. We need grown ups who can get us back on the road to civility & regain any international dignity we might have left.
If 27 countries can have a set of rules guaranteeing their rights, democracy, well-being & security why would we prefer these over a two party system where neither party can or is willing to guarantee even just half of these.
We're tired of manifestos that are thought of & typed up on the morning that they are read, only to be forgotten by evening.

4. kuesal , Monday, March 13, 2023, 17:51:

Scusa direttore, ma agli Inglesi cosa poò interessare se queen Ursula abbia o meno il mandato di negoziare con capi di Stato vari? non possono essere meno impiccioni ora che sono semplici ed inconferenti extracomunitari?

5. stye , Monday, March 13, 2023, 19:03:

plutus - you use the EU and democracy in the same paragraph - hahaha- oh - hahaha, the EU is a bunch of unelected dictats with a FAKE parliament, where MEP's can NEITHER create or amend lesgislation

6. terence patrick hewett , Monday, March 13, 2023, 19:11:

@kuesal
Gorblimey guvnor, tuppence a bucket, well stamped down.

7. Catherine , Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 09:46:

@2 Jon Livesey, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith MP, made just this point in the Commons yesterday, that this swift action was only possible due to having "taken back control" when leaving the EU.

8. Catherine , Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 09:53:

@f kuesal: It matters, because it is a benefit - a Brexit benefit - not being part of an institution where the unaccountable executive arm increasingly flouts the so-called rules. This unaccountable executive, in particular its head, is increasingly grabbing power, and taking it away from the member states. It means we are not (or should not be) having decisions foisted on us which are not in our interests, by an unelected body (the COmmission).
(È importante, perché è un vantaggio - un vantaggio della Brexit - non far parte di un'istituzione in cui il braccio esecutivo irresponsabile si fa sempre più beffe delle cosiddette regole. Questo esecutivo irresponsabile, in particolare il suo capo, sta sempre più prendendo il potere e togliendolo agli Stati membri. Significa che non stiamo (o non dovremmo avere) decisioni imposte su di noi che non sono nei nostri interessi, da un organo non eletto (la Commissione).)

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