[HIGHLIGHTS] “Let’s take away from the European Commission its right of initiative, which gives it exorbitant power”

Michel Guénaire is a lawyer and writer. His latest book: After Globalization.

The return to the nation (Presses de la Cité, 2022). Nobody says it, yet it is the origin of the European evil. The treaties grant the Commission an exclusive right of initiative in the creation of European rules of law which gives it a central role, from which everything starts and where everything returns. The legislative power of the Commission is resolved in the exercise of its right to propose the texts which govern Union law.