Delivered on May 9, Emmanuel Macron's new speech on Europe had at least the merit of clarity.
If his incantations in favor of a "European sovereignty" which would not cut into national sovereignty have lacked concrete translation since 2017, his proposal to generalize qualified majority voting within the EU - and therefore to abandon the use of unanimity for the most crucial subjects - cuts through the heart of Macron's "at the same time".
Didn't he himself hail the "boldness" of such a reform to come?
Audacity will certainly be needed, because this is not a picrocholine war of experts, but a fundamental political debate on the nature and extent of sovereignty.
To date, 80% of directives and regulations are already taken by qualified majority under the "ordinary legislative procedure", a new standard since the Lisbon Treaty of 2007. Unanimity is only the exception allowed in the framework of the “procedure…
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