{"id":720,"date":"2019-05-23T14:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2019-09-05T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:32:00","slug":"the-stance-of-eu-elections-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"The Stance of EU Elections 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The European elections of 26 May 2019 are crucial in many respects and\ngiven the liquidity of geopolitical developments taking place on the planet,\nwhich naturally also affect the EU. Both external and internal problems and the\ncorresponding challenges facing the EU are many and multiple complex in solving\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Problems and challenges within the EU<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its internal problems and challenges, the EU (European Union) is facing\nthe rise in popularity of nationalist parties throughout its territory due to\nthe failure of EU policies on the crucial, for many European citizens, of a\nmigratory issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope that both the new European Parliament and the new EU Commission,\nwhich will emerge from these European elections, will be able to devise and\nimplement in practice a common, coherent and compact policy that addresses the\nmigratory problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, the increase in the rates of nationalist parties with increased\nholding of seats in the European Parliament will increase tensions and any\n“bickering” about policies that do not have their views and positions\nattached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The degree of difficulty will be increased in terms of agreeing a mutually acceptable\nand workable policy on the immigration issue. Here, of course, is the challenge\nthat both the new Members of the European Parliament and the new EU Commission\nwill have to face, as they will have to deal with vehemently populist\npositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis-https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other challenges facing the new EU Commission and outside the Brexit, is\nwhether it will be able to resist the pressure it will accept for a possible\n“alteration” of existing regulations that exist in the competition in\nits huge internal market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the new Commission will give in to the pressures that\nviolate the regulations to allow the creation of pan-European type\ncompanies-champions, creating oligopolies or even monopolies in specific\nsectors of European industry and Economy, respectively? Or will it protect the\ninternal market from such entrepreneurial actions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A further challenge for the EU and of course for the new Commission is whether it will be able to limit the tendency to protectionism towards other countries or to follow the imposed protectionism that the US has imposed on the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg during a plenary session in 2014<\/strong>
Photo by David Iliff, License: CC-BY-SA 3.0,
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The problems and challenges that the EU will face from\nabroad<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creation and existence of a common foreign policy as well as a common security\nand defense policy embracing all EU member countries are one of the biggest\nchallenges that the next four years will have to face in new European\nParliament and the new Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real challenge is whether EU member countries will accept to give their\npowers to a new, say, EU Foreign Office that will plan in advance a common\nforeign policy for all EU members which the applied common foreign policy\nshould anticipate, plan and shape the developments for the benefit of all EU\nmember countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to achieve this, there must be create a working council which,\nwith its work, will support the EU foreign minister. Around this working\ncouncil should create a flexible bureaucracy staffed by ceiling\ndiplomats-technocrats and be interconnected with the respective\ndepartments\/Ministries of Foreign Affairs of each member country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only in this way could a common foreign policy be planned and use in a\ntimely and complete manner and sufficiency any emerging geopolitical, economic\nand technological advantages for the benefit of its members and on the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the common foreign policy should be accompanied and supported by a common security and defence policy for the whole of the EU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This could, in the first instance, be shaped by, for example, a joint agency that would defend the whole of the EU’s maritime borders and fully safeguard its maritime borders and always throughout the entire EU territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Coast Guard service such as Frontex but with many law enforcement powers that to be a mixture of Coast Guard and flexible naval corps. Another example is the transformation of Europol into a law enforcement agency throughout the EU and in a match with the American FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, for the creation, organization and staffing of the European\narmy and in general the EU armed forces, the reader should read the detailed\nanalysis we published entitled “The Creation of the European (EU) Defense\n& its Defense Forces” on 25\/10\/2018 in the category: geopolitics, in https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the common foreign policy and the Common Security and defence policy\ncould never be effective if there is no support in the background for a\nEuropean army that can enforce its presence both at the external borders EU and\nmilitary and\/or peacekeeping missions abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The steps taken to date by the EU in this direction and always through the\nEuropean Defence Union by strengthening Permanent Structured Cooperation\n(PESCO) and the European Defence Fund are in the right direction, but they are\nincomplete policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to build, organise and staff a European army and be as an\nEU capable of supporting it in logistics terms, you should also accelerate\ndevelopments in the partial consolidation of the multi-dispersed current\nEuropean Defence industry comprising all the defence industries of EU member\ncountries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This should be done in a series of vertical and horizontal types of mergers\nand acquisitions between European defence industries so that three or four\ndefence industries remain in each armaments sector and for the whole of the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, the European Army’s support with European first-rate\ntechnology with at most two types of weapons systems in each sector will\nincrease its effectiveness. At the same time, the implementation of all these\nprojects will require the use of an increased labour force by reducing\nunemployment in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case the European Defence Fund could acquire funds of the size of\nthe funds of ESM (European Stability Mechanism) to finance all kinds of\nexpenses, costs, equipment, etc. of the European army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As most European NATO members are under-funding their base of statutes in\nNATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the fact that competition between\nthe US and China will become more severe over time, increasingly absorbing\nforces and US funds from NATO to Asia, NATO’s European members should increase\ntheir funding to strengthen the European pillar of the NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the two sides the EU and Russia must, in the first place, be\ngenuinely willing to put a framework for a substantive dialogue between them,\nwhich will define the joint actions to be taken by both sides to improve the\nconditions and trust in the areas of energy, security and economic\/commercial\ncooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will be in the EU’s interest to converge Russia towards the EU on\nspecific and pre-agreed principles and rules, especially at this time because\nof the sanctions and competition that exists between Russia and United States\nand by which Russia is forced to approach China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After and withdrawal of the U.S. and Russia from the Treaty of 1987\n(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, INF-1987 between USSR and USA) for\nmedium-range nuclear weapons (because China manufactures such weapons)\ncompetition for nuclear equipment is coming back. This will necessarily lead\nthe EU to create a new strategic Security Framework, including Russia, from the\noutset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But nothing that we have mentioned above can be achieved on time if the\nEurozone and the EU in general are not able to deepen further in order to\nimprove its economy by creating conditions of social prosperity, if not in\ntotal at least to the majority of its citizens and its member countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project can be achieved with more Europe and, above all, with more economic Europe, which will enable a federal budget to be created in the euro area and by extension to the EU.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to create a highly functional, effective federal type budget in the Eurozone, the reader should read the series of analyses published in https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com<\/a> with title \u00abThe Proper Way to achieve the Single Operating Budget of the Eurozone-Part I, II, III, IV\u00bb in category Fiscal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only then will a common economic, tax and fiscal policy be achieved across\nthe euro area and the EU, which common policies will manage to make the\nmanagement of human and natural resources even more effective in the euro area\nand by extension of the EU. In this case, even more healthy business and\neconomic forces will be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the social well-being achieved in the Eurozone and the EU will enable the new European Parliament and the new Commission to emerge from the European elections of 26 May 2019 to further improve the Democracy and the Constitutional Governance across the euro area and the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emmanuel Macron-President of French Republic
Photo by Author: Arne Mikker
Source: Talign, EU 2017EE Estonian Presidency,
licensed CC-BY 2.0
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Choosing the future of the EU<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all these reasons and for all the people who dream of achieving these\ngoals in the future, European citizens should vote in these European elections\nto the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) party and of course\nthe party of Emmanuel\nMacron-President of France who cooperates with them. Despite their failures in\nthe past, they remain the only hope of producing dreams for a European\npolitical, economic and military unification and as dreamed by the fathers of\nthe EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanos Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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