The EU Aims for a Significant Push Towards Cutting Red Tape

Seeks the European Union to streamline its bureaucracy? We have an audacious remedy: dismantle the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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The air is thick with panic. Does Mrs. von der Leyen seek to quell administrative madness ? The solution is straightforward.

To oversee a customs union and execute common policies, there's no necessity for the European Commission, the European Parliament, or the Court of Justice of the EU.

The European Union is an intergovernmental body, not a sovereign nation. This was starkly illustrated by the Trump administration, which sidestepped dealings with Eurocrats to directly converse only with the leaders of member states.

Consider the case of Kaja Kallas, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Her formal overture to Marco Rubio, the newly minted U.S. Secretary of State, fell flat. He conceded to her merely a courtesy call, only after he had already spoken with the prime ministers of Poland and the Baltic states, urging them to soften their stance towards Russia.

The euro, the common currency of 20 EU membres states, stands as a testament to impactful common policy. The Eurozone's monetary policy is steered by the Eurogroup and the governing council of the European Central Bank, not by the European Commission.

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The European Union was established upon the principle of subsidiarity, which dictates that it should intervene only within its designated competences. Let us elevate this principle to its utmost form, abolishing all EU competences, whether exclusive or shared, and returning to the bedrock of international law where each nation honors its commitments.

To streamline governance, we propose a significant reduction in bureaucracy by dismissing 80,000 European officials, and retaining merely two institutions: the Secretariat of the European Council and the European Court of Auditors.

The European Council, convening the heads of state and government, is the the sole arbiter of decision-making. This suffices for crafting and managing common policies through intergovernmental task forces made up of national officials. The Council's Secretariat should be minimized, confined to clerical duties of managing agendas and correspondence.

Such a restructuring would not alter the legal essence of decisions, as common policies would still be enacted through directives setting only goals, letting member states the latitude to implement these in their own legislative frameworks, thus eradicating the need for Council rulings that bypass national parliaments.

This approach offers flexibility; states can advance common policies without obstruction from the reluctant, who retain the option to join later. Great European achievements like Airbus or Arianespace owe their success to voluntary interstate cooperation, not to EU institutions, which often smother innovation with additional layers of bureaucracy.

On budgetary matters, rather than an unwieldy EU budget poorly managed by the Commission, there would be individual budget allocations for each policy, funded by participating states.

With regards to trade, nations can individually or collectively forge free trade agreements, with non-participants free to impose tariffs on imports resulting from those agreements. Consider the Mercosur agreement; France could opt out, safeguarding its agriculture against unfair competition without economic repercussions for peers.

Let us dismantle the European Parliament, an assembly marred by inefficacy and corruption, and undemocratic in nature. National parliaments are equipped to deliberate and vote on European matters, ensuring that opposition to any policy by a given state leads to its exclusion from its benefits and burdens, fostering a truly democratic Europe while eliminating the toxic influence of European-level lobbying.

We advocate for the dissolution of the Court of Justice of the European Union, trusting that each nation's judicial system can uphold its state’s commitments. The French administrative justice system's regular condemnation of France for non-compliance exemplifies this capability. Common policies require trust in each other’s judicial systems.

Retain the European Court of Auditors, vital for its impartial and exemplary work in providing pragmatic feedback on actions taken. Also, maintain coordination bodies like Europol that lie outside EU jurisdiction.

Abolish Schengen, preserving the freedom of movement for EU citizens without the inefficacy of border control vividly demonstrated when Angela Merkel unilaterally opened all European borders in 2015, precipitating an avoidable migration crisis.

Behold, cutting red tape.