Thje Commission president wants to lead alone an institution that wants to extend its expertise to geostrategy, i.e. foreign and defence policy.... The Member States are reluctant and in its college, free minds have no place, which explains the resignation of Thierry Breton.
The composition of the new European Commission is difficult and painful. Its president wants to lead alone an institution that wants to extend its expertise to geostrategy, i.e. foreign and defence policy. This is not without a problem. The Member States are reluctant and in its college, free minds have no place, which explains the resignation of Thierry Breton.
He could be blamed for being too active, if this criticism were justified in an institution that was undermined for its slowness and slackness, but certainly not for being effective, independent and competent. It has advanced Europe in all areas of its competence and will be lacking in an increasingly criticised College. The weakened French president did not believe it must lead the fight to impose it, and that is a pity.
Indeed, European policies appear increasingly unbalanced by the influence of a Germany, which is itself in difficulty because of its retrograde economic policy. This threatens the entire European Union by giving arguments to its long-standing opponents.
It is time to make changes in the governance of the institutions, even before a day to amend the treaties. A new practice must be adapted to a new situation: threats from the East, competition from the West and Asia require a burst and turns that Mario Draghi has perfectly identified and recommended in economic matters, and that Emmanuel Macron himself advocated in foreign policy and defence.
The legitimacy of common institutions that we are most in need and that seem to be struggling to cope with change is at stake.
Fondation Robert Schuman
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