
An initiative by Hungarian and Polish think tanks has secured the support of Spain's Vox and other populist forces for a detailed program for the destruction of current European institutions. It contains two options: dissolving the European Union or replacing it with a more reduced version...
Option A: Dissolution of the European Union. Option B: Replacing it with a smaller version. Both scenarios envision the demise of the current EU. Both “scenarios” are described in detail in “The Great Reset,” a document written by Poland’s Ordo Iuris Institute and Hungary’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), supported by Spain’s far-right Vox and other far-right parties.
Usually expressed in vague rhetoric against “Brussels bureaucrats,” Vox’s support for this report represents a dramatic step forward for the third largest political party in Spain.
“The Great Reset,” which the two think tanks are promoting as a roadmap for the far right on a European scale, is not a vague statement. On the contrary, it constitutes a systematic and detailed plan to destroy the current EU.
Among the effects of Brexit, there is also an unexpected one. “The supporters of leaving the EU have disappeared,” explains Anna López, a doctorate in political science and author of the essay “The Far Right in Europe.” Extremists, López emphasizes, have appropriated the advantages of being inside the EU for two reasons: one is economic, because it guarantees “resources, visibility and financing”; and the other, electoral, because “opposing the idea of Europe politically and symbolically” is preferable to fighting to leave it.
So the parties in this group, the researcher adds, have chosen to set aside the rhetoric of leaving the bloc, and replace it with nostalgia for an "idealized" Europe that could have been "strong, prosperous and Christian", but which has been destroyed - the far right claims - by the attack of a bureaucracy usurped by the left, as well as by Muslim immigration out of control.
Because rhetoric works, details are rarely necessary to add. In politics, details can scare those who agree with the big picture. However, the “Great Restoration” is an exception to the rule of ambiguity.
But who are these expert groups that have decided to roll up their sleeves to move from grandiose proclamations to more practical movements? They are two Central European organizations. The Polish one is called Ordo Iuris, the shadowy promoter of the “normative architecture” of the previous government of the ultranationalists of the Law and Justice party, including the “intellectual authorship” of its restrictive law on abortion and the “criminalization of sex education,” says anthropologist Nuria Alabao, author of “Gender Wars.”
Registered as a lobbyist with EU institutions, Ordo Iuris maintains contacts with extremist parties both in Poland - where it also works with the Confederation, positioned even further to the right of the political spectrum - but also in France, Italy and other EU countries.
Her interest in Spain, where she has been active and in contact with Vox since at least 2022, is more than clear. Ordo Iuris was also one of the sponsors of the anti-abortion summit held in the Spanish Senate last December under the umbrella of the Political Values Network, an international group with strong Spanish roots, especially with the figure of former Spanish Interior Minister Jaime Mayor Oreja.
Meanwhile, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), explains Anna López, is a factory of “political and intellectual elites linked to illiberal nationalism,” created specifically to feed Viktor Orbán’s regime. This is a model that Vox seeks to emulate in Spain with its support for the ISSEP center for training and dissemination of ideas.
Both Ordo Iuris and MCC illustrate the determination of the European far right to “consolidate a transnational cultural, educational and strategic project,” notes Anna López. This is the foundation of “The Great Reset,” which is based on the premise that the European project has abandoned its original ambition to be a zone of “free trade” and “peaceful coexistence,” and has become a bureaucratized monster intent on castrating national sovereignty and imposing leftist principles.
Ordo Iuris and MCC offer two alternatives. The more detailed one, presented under the motto “Return to the Roots”, aims to bring the EU - as the report explains - closer to its embryonic model of 1957, when Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Rome, the origin of the European Economic Community. The first change would be the reduction of European institutions. The European Commission would be transformed into a “general secretariat” under the strict control of the member states.
This idea is in line with that put forward more than 5 years ago by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally: reducing the EC to an “administrative secretariat without a decision-making function.” This transformation would mark the end of the Commission’s ability to exert pressure in the face of what it considered to be the authoritarian tendencies of the Law and Justice party in Poland and Fidesz in Hungary.
Parlamenti Evropian do të transformohej në një asamble të përzier, të përbërë nga anëtarë të zgjedhur përmes zgjedhjeve evropiane dhe të tjerë të emëruar nga qeveritë kombëtare, me kompetenca këshillimore.
Ndërkohë, funksionet e Gjykatës së Drejtësisë të Bashkimit Evropian (GJED) do të kufizoheshin në “zgjidhjen e mosmarrëveshjeve”, duke e lënë atë jashtë fushëveprimit të saj për të interpretuar traktatet apo për të anuluar vendimet gjyqësore në shtetet kombëtare.
I gjithë projekti, është në përputhje me një ide mbizotëruese: që asgjë s‘duhet të kufizojë qeveritë kombëtare, të cilat do të ruajnë të gjithë pushtetin. Këshilli Evropian, si “zëri i udhëheqësve kombëtarë”, do të ishte “autoriteti përfundimtar”. Madje mund të nxisë miratimin e ligjeve të reja për të përmbysur vendimet e GJED-së.
Ndryshimi i dytë, do t’i jepte fund modelit aktual të integrimit, duke e zëvendësuar atë
me një model “à la carte”, në të cilin secili shtet do të vendoste në cilat fusha dëshiron të qën rojë dhe në cilat jo. Për shembull, jo migracionit dhe burimeve të rinovueshme; po lëvizjes së lirë të punëtorëve. Secili shtet, mund të “përjashtojë veten nga politikat që bien ndesh me prioritetet e tij”.
Mbi të gjitha, BE-ja nuk duhet të ketë “asnjë ndikim të drejtpërdrejtë ose të tërthortë”, thuhet në dokument. Ashtu siç BE-ja po debaton se si ta përmirësojë vendimmarrjen për të konkurruar në një botë me ritëm të shpejtë, Opsioni A i raportit mbështet “forcimin dhe zgjerimin” e rregullit të “unanimitetit”.
Këtu qëndron edhe ndryshimi i tretë: më pak votime me shumicë të kualifikuara, dhe më shumë nevojë që të gjithë të veprojnë si një trup i vetëm për të ndërmarrë ndonjë veprim. Reforma e katërt dhe e fundit për t’u “Rikthyer tek Rrënjët”, do të ishte ndryshimi i emrit të BE-së në “Komunitetin Evropian të Kombeve”.
Që të gjithë këto, kanë të bëjnë me opsionin e parë të përshkruar në dokument. Sipas raportit, skenari i dytë është edhe më “i pazakontë”. Është ai që autorët e quajnë “Një Fillim i Ri”, i cili do të përbëhej nga “Një traktat i ri i Unionit” që e tejkalon “paradigmën e mesit të shekullit XX-të të ndërhyrjes dhe menaxhimit nëpërmjet masave rregullatore”.
Sipas këtij skenari, çdo shtet do të vendosë vetë se kur, si dhe në çfarë mase do të arrihet pjesëmarrja e tij në secilin projekt bashkëpunimi. Do të jetë e nevojshme të “negociohet struktura e detajuar e BE-së së re” dhe një “plan tranzicioni”.
Teksti u prezantua në Madrid më 22 maj në një aktivitet të promovuar nga Ordo Iuris, MCC Vox — përmes fondacionit të saj, Disenso — dhe Qendra për të Drejtat Themelore, e lidhur me Fidesz të Orbán. Mbështetja e Vox nuk është e para që marrin Ordo Iuris dhe MCC.
The report has the support of Fidesz in Hungary and key figures from the Law and Justice and Confederation parties in Poland. Its promoters, through the Patriots for Europe group - the third largest in the European Parliament and to which Vox belongs - are preparing for a presentation in Paris with the National Rally in attendance, and are "in talks" with entities "across Europe", including the Machiavelli Center, linked to Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, according to an Ordo Iuris spokesman.
The report is also supported by the Heritage Foundation, which has a strong influence on the Trumpian movement, and which is behind Project 2025, a radical plan of the current administration, which has raised doubts even among the few moderates who still remain in the Republican Party.
The idea for the Great Reset was born at a conference organized by the Heritage Foundation and Ordo Iuris in Warsaw in September last year, to study what Europe might look like in the world envisioned by the nationalist international. This idea of the future of Europe has begun to take shape. / Pamphlet from “El Pais”
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