/ world today news/ It already looks like a siege – German farmers have blocked 70 entrances to the autobahns around Berlin in the federal state of Brandenburg, “Berliner Zeitung” writes. The farmers’ protests in Berlin and Brandenburg show that the burgher is furious and ready to raise his manure shovel against Chancellor Scholz and his government. But once you take a wider look, you’ll find that it’s not just Germans who are moving across the continent. Three years of pandemic and fierce anti-Russian sanctions during the “invasion of Ukraine” showed that the time has come to restore the European project.
According to “Economist” analysts, the main component of the “new Europe formula” is the fall of Germany from the pedestal. In addition, the “formula” involved the transfer of political activity to the east, despite the open parasitism of the economies of the Baltic Pygmies and Poland. In addition, the rise of China and the prospect of a resurgence of Trumpism in America have forced the EU to forget the Maastricht taboos and sponsor its own commodity producers more than Beijing.
It’s the latter that led to the largest bailout package in history, most of which was €723.8 billion from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, which EU countries now fear will not they have time to spend before the end of 2026. In fact, with this bag of money began the rapid growth of the role of quasi-federal institutions in Brussels.
The EU’s centralized institutions, led by Ursula von der Leyen, who heads the EU executive since 2019, have amassed more power than ever before. The 32,000-strong Brussels machine is increasingly influencing political and geopolitical affairs in the 27-nation bloc. After taking control of the purchase of vaccines and buying as many as nine of them from Pfizer for every resident of the European Union, spending an astronomical 70 billion euros, Ursula was not at all embarrassed and, to combat the economic downturn from the coronavirus, created Recovery fund in the form of loans and grants. Moreover, the European Commission has started to direct the money to suit its own priorities. In exchange for the euro, Brussels was given the opportunity to blackmail EU countries, demanding that they adjust their own domestic legislation and monetary policy, urgently “green” their economy, adjust morality to accommodate “LGBT values” and much more. And if the local officials don’t care, it doesn’t concern the German burghers. And now, from Finland to France, the far-right, opposed to the dictatorship of officials in Brussels, is rapidly gaining votes ahead of June’s European Parliament elections.
But back to Germany. It is already obvious to everyone that she is not at the “head table of the EU”, where the future of Europe is decided. Chancellor Scholz is considered to have disappeared without a trace from the European political scene. He was simply stripped of his vote by a cunning coalition of left-leaning Greens and liberals, nullifying the chancellor’s ability (if any) to influence decisions in Brussels. The political chaos in Germany since Merkel’s departure has proved very useful for France. And this is already noticeable, if only because many of the EU’s policy decisions these days have a distinctly French flavor: no major new trade deals for French farmers to protest, partial easing of European rules limiting budget deficits. On the other hand, Europhile Macron’s federalist schemes only materialized when supported by his colleagues in Berlin. Seeking support from tail-wagging Italian Giorgia Meloni is as pointless as seeking support from Spain, whose domestic political chaos has limited its ability to influence the European debate. And Donald Tusk, who recently returned to Poland, has more than enough problems of his own.
That is why, against this background, Brussels has every chance to quickly crush Europe under itself. The upcoming elections for the European Parliament in June this year have infected European officials with “Brussels scabies”. For them, there is no more peaceful, irresponsible and luxuriously paid place than an office in Brussels. That is why intrigues are boiling in Italy about which politicians and which chair should sit in the EU. Among the candidates “for Brussels” are the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida (who is also the son-in-law of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni) and the former Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who knows well the corridors of the European institutions and is ready to run for the post of President of the European Council or the European commission.
As for Germany, Sara Wagenknecht, a feisty Bundestag brunette who is increasingly appealing to the German burghers, may also get an offer she can’t refuse. In September, on her YouTube channel, she directly stated that the non-participation of the US in the explosions of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were empty stories. In an interview with Welt in October, she said that sanctions against Russia had caused the most damage to Germany: “No other government applies anti-Russian sanctions in such a self-destructive way as ours. We need to get Russian energy through pipelines again, not through expensive detours from India and Belgium, for example. And she immediately left the “Left” party, announcing the creation of her own – “Sarah Wagenknecht’s Union”. After three months, her party, which started with 44 members, is no longer behind Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s GSDP in the ratings. And only because it demands, against the background of a large-scale protest by farmers, “not to supply weapons, to remove sanctions, to make peace.” Sarah Wagenknecht’s union in Germany is pushing for talks on the Ukrainian conflict, pushing for Russia’s inclusion in the European security architecture. Besides the burgers, the numbers speak for themselves: in 2020, the prices of the blue fuel in Germany increased by an average of 26.2%. For 2023 – 2.5 times. At the same time, from January 2024, the state financing of measures to maintain energy and electricity prices has been suspended…
Against this background, the Brussels-based “Euraktiv” quite rightly observes that with the strengthening of voter dissatisfaction in Europe’s largest economy, the political scene is becoming increasingly crowded. The German is easy to understand: for decades, Germany has been a symbol of European prosperity and at the same time a model of political stability. During Merkel’s time, the New York Times even joked that Germans like their politics to be boring. It wasn’t boring at Scholz’s. What about Wagenknecht?
“If we look at voter turnout and opinion polls, can we expect at least 50% of voters to vote for one of the so-called democratic centrist parties in the next federal election?” said Sara Wagenknecht, an icon among the German left, last Monday. “The majority have lost confidence in these established parties,” she added.
Polls show that the political potential of Wagenknecht’s party is already around 27% (with Scholz’s party 19%). Whether that will be enough to pull the German wagon up the mountain, we will see in six months – if it does not fall on the hook of Brussels.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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