Losing our sovereignty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : She has committed the EU to purchase €650bn worth of US liquified natural gas and nuclear fuel over three years.
57% : She has promised that the EU will invest £519 billion in the US economy and that EU countries will buy hundreds of billions of euros of US weaponry.
56% : Costa said that the EU leadership wants formal accession talks to begin following approval by a qualified majority of leaders, rather than by unanimous consent as is currently required.
56% : We need to ensure that our national interests are safeguarded in EU decision making.
54% : That is up to the governments of EU member states to decide.
51% : If we do not influence decisions enough to also express our national interests, such EU decisions will not only be shaped without us but also against us.
51% : We will make ourselves smaller and more insignificant if we do not work to safeguard and promote our national interests within the EU.
50% : She wants all the member states to pay the fines that might be imposed on the EU if it goes ahead and breaks international law by using the interest from the Russian frozen assets.
47% : So far, every member state has the right to veto all EU membership bids at every step.
45% : Sharing our sovereignty with the EU must not mean that we lose our sovereignty completely.
45% : We must work and align ourselves with those who want to stop the EU from becoming a top-down hegemonic bloc, increasingly usurping the sovereignty of its members, homogenising them and ignoring the specific realities of its diverse members.
39% : Analysing the US-EU trade deal, the European Policy Centre concluded ('Dead on arrival: Why von der Leyen's deal must be undone', August 6): "Today, von der Leyen runs Brussels with a strong presi­dential hand and has largely done away with internal checks and balances inside the Commission.
38% : Digital newspaper Politico has reported that this "plan faces pushback from several EU countries, including France, the Netherlands and Greece, and is unlikely to get wide approval in Denmark...
34% : Last September, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius sharply criticised von der Leyen for announcing the deployment of EU troops to Ukraine: "the European Union has no jurisdiction or competence whatsoever when it comes to the deployment of troops - regardless of for whom or for what..."
31% : The EU leadership must not be allowed to continue disempowering the citizens of EU countries and to make hollow declarations of meaningful democracy and sovereignty in them.
30% : I want their signature saying: 'If we take the Russian money, we use it, we're all going to be responsible if it goes wrong'." EU Council president Antonio di Costa has joined von der Leyen in undermining further the sovereignty of EU member states by wanting to override Hungary's decision to veto Ukraine's EU membership bid.
15% : The EU is putting the whole EU project at risk as it is turning itself increasingly into a house built from the roof down.

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