Europe’s ‘dirty word’ claims more victims: Dutch government falls, German government overruled
Judges and woke politicians paralyse sovereign actions on immigration across EU, and Barnier says EU 'autocratic'
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Macron’s government is a dead duck walking – is anywhere in the EU governable anymore?
In the first two days of this week, one EU government has had its headline manifesto pledge ruled unlawful, and another EU government has fallen due to the largest coalition partner pulling out as hardline immigration measures were not taken. These governments are those of the No.1 and No.5 economies in the EU: Germany and the Netherlands.
Meanwhile in capitals across the rest of the bloc, attempts to stop illegal immigration are causing very similar problems.
Government in Den Haag fails to put a ‘Dutch cap’ on immigration and Geert Wilders walks
Yesterday, (Tues 03 June 2025), the man frequently characterised as Holland’s ‘Far-Right Firebrand’, Geert Wilders, decided enough was enough with the shaky coalition government he was part of. The Dutch General Elections took place in November last year and it took months before they were able to form a coalition. One of the problems was that Wilders actually won the election.
At the time, Facts4EU was highly dubious that such a coalition including Wilders’ PVV party could possibly survive, and so it has proved. His partners were simply too liberal-left-woke for the tireless campaigner against what he sees as the dilution of his country’s culture, heritage and identity caused by mass immigration. He may have toned down his outspoken views on Islam to an extent, but his inwardly-spoken thoughts are unlikely to have changed much, if at all.
We will now have another ‘caretaker government’ in the EU, this time led by the man who inexplicably became the Dutch Prime Minister in their flaky coalition government. So difficult was it to assemble this coalition, they actually had to go outside the pool of coalition party candidates who had been elected, and appoint an unelected bureaucrat to the position.
The next time Rejoiners start to talk about democracy in the same breath as talking about the EU, readers may wish to add this little fact to their warning that a non sequitur is in the offing.
“You vill obey”
On Monday a German judge ruled the new German government’s major action to stop illegal immigration as unlawful, thereby stopping Chancellor Merz’s key and emphatic election promise to voters of an “effective entry ban” on those would-be migrants attempting to enter at Germany’s borders.
During the election campaign only a few months ago, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised that :
“On the first day of my tenure as Chancellor, I will instruct the Interior Ministry to impose permanent border controls with all our neighbours and refuse all attempts at illegal entry.”
Characterising this policy as “an effective entry ban”, he hoped to stem the rise in support for the right-wing Alternatif fur Deutschland (AfD) party, seen as the toughest on immigration. Even this pledge failed to stop the AfD from achieving its best-ever result, taking the second-highest number of votes cast in the general election and becoming Germany’s main Opposition party.
Not only did Chancellor Merz fail to act “on the first day of my tenure”, his policy now lies in ruins thanks to a ruling of the sixth chamber of the Administrative Court of Berlin on Monday. The Berlin court said in its ruling:
“Persons who express an application for asylum at border controls on German territory may not be rejected without carrying out the Dublin procedure for determining the competent Member State for examining the asylum application.”
In effect, the court told Merz he must follow EU law and that the German people have no sovereign right to determine who enters their country. In this case, the lawyers bringing the case were acting for three Somali men who had been turned away at the German-Polish border.
In a final blow to the German Chancellor, the court made an unequivocal statement at the end of its judgement:
”Die Beschlüsse sind unanfechtbar.” or “The decisions are incontestable.”
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‘Nightmare on EU Street’ for Ursula von der Leyen, as Monsieur ‘Teeck-Tock’ re-enters
At this point in the week, we have one key government that has fallen, another which is in deep trouble politically and economically, and today things just don’t get any better today.
As Ursula von der Leyen struggles to get any EU government interested in new policies dreamt up by her unelected EU Commission in Brussels, and as the week started badly with Germany’s no.1 policy in tatters and the Dutch government falling (again), her own position now comes under attack.
None other than the bete noire of all Brexiteers, Monsieur Michel Barnier, pops up today with a book to sell and half an eye on running for President to replace Emmanuel Macron. There will be few who can forget his ghastly refrains during those seemingly interminable years of the UK government’s faint-hearted attempts to enact the will of the people and leave the dysfunctional bloc.
“Ze clock eez teecking. Teeck-Tock. Teeck-Tock.”
Barnier’s book recounts his political life, which culminated most recently in his short-lived tenure at Le Matillon – the French equivalent of No.10 – where he became the shortest-serving Prime Minister in French history, lasting just three months in the job. Given that Macron may be about to lose his fifth Prime Minister since becoming President, Barnier’s place in the record books is even more of an achievement than it sounds.
Written mainly as his ‘kiss and tell’ memoirs of his time up to and including him negotiating Brexit with a succession of UK politicians following the EU Referendum, Barnier does not lose the opportunity to have a pop at the EU Commission President herself.
In his book, he essentially accuses Frau von der Leyen of increasingly acting like a dictator and of letting her authoritarian streak show more and more. According to Barnier, she is a woman “who wants to decide everything”. He goes on to attack her unelected Commission, characterising them as “super technocrats”. It is almost as though Monsieur Barnier has been reading Brexit Facts4EU for the last nine years and has finally seen the light.
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Sovereign rights?
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'The Beetch is back'
It is perhaps not surprising that Michel Barnier has chosen to use his book to attack the EU Commission President. During the Brexit years, after she took over from the ‘post-prandial’ Jean-Claude Juncker, the rumours of many ‘leedle teefs’ between the EU’s Chief Brexit Negotiator and his new boss abounded. Allegedly the final straw for his Gallic pride was when she took over the final negotiations with the Johnson administration herself, towards the very end. Perhaps she thought this required a certain German ruthlessness, but we shall have to wait for her own memoirs for that.
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