EU - what's next?

Vasa Čokrljan wrote:a para će dati i prijateljska Kina.

Morawiecki is the developmentalist face of the PiS government. He has a good image in the West. He likes to cite Thomas Piketty and Mariana Mazzucato, even writing the preface to the Polish edition of the latter’s The Entrepreneurial State. Morawiecki has articulated a grand vision of re-industrialization and modernization. The “Morawiecki Plan” aims to uplift the poorer, eastern “Poland B” through economic development. Morawiecki and his team consciously harken back to Poland’s patriotic developmentalist tradition, especially to the figure of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, the interwar technocrat who undertook the construction of the port of Gdynia and the industrialization of central Poland. This vision is backed by Kaczyński, who is enamored with its patriotic pastiche.

Much of Morawiecki’s plan, however, remains on paper, and some speculate that many of its projects amount to little more than PR stunts. Initiatives Morawiecki has celebrated, like the Solidarity Transport Hub, are the culmination of a decade of infrastructure investment, financed in large part with EU funds. The center-left SLD stabbed itself in the foot with its single-minded focus on EU accession, keeping expenditures at a minimum so as to meet European deficit limits, while the beneficiaries of that accession have been the two right-wing parties that have been showered with money from Brussels.

The underlying unity of PiS’s economic, social, and cultural policies comes from a goal to cleanse Polish society of the legacies of the PRL. PiS’s project of building a new state supported by the Catholic Church is not based on populism, but on conservative moralism. While the rhetoric against “post-communist deals” is directed against businessmen and politicians, Kaczyński has stated that he regards the legacy of “post-communism” as a society-wide pathology. In an interview with journalist Teresa Torańska conducted in 1994, he spoke of a web of dependencies and privileges going down to the level of factory brigade. In this regard, Kaczyński’s views are not too distinct from the Polish neoliberals who viewed the common Pole as a hopeless “Homo Sovieticus,” completely dependent on the state—except that while neoliberals believed that this “condition” needed to be shattered through the shock of the market, Kaczyński believes it is the role of the state to take action to cleanse society, with private enterprise acting as a junior partner.

PiS offers Poles a moral pseudo-revolution that preserves the country’s post-1989 trajectory, in which the social question can only be understood in relationship to a communist past that needs to be thrown off. It does not represent a backlash to Polish transformation, but rather its final consolidation: the construction of a new anti-communist political superstructure. PiS’s narrative of a previously lawless privatization process and a restoration of justice serves the illusion of a state existing independently of society and social classes. The more PiS feels comfortable in its position of power, the more the illusion will wear.

Very serious with using blackmail and blocking the decision on sanctions against Belarus individuals. I’m sure this will be remembered for a long time and accordingly have consequences. https://t.co/Fw1XCmcVIo

— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) September 10, 2020

Pax Mediterranea !

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) September 10, 2020

Daï Djakman Faré wrote:^^grci su legende ako su ovo izveli

Top employees of German car makers have bragged about having #Orban in their pocket. This shouldnt come as a surprise. Car manufacturers + suppliers contribute more to the HU GDP (4.5% + 5-8%) than the EU (4.9%). Also no secret: Car industry access to German politics /2

— Daniel Freund (@daniel_freund) September 19, 2020

Having in mind the German Hungarian dealmaking in the Council on cars a similar deal on #ruleoflaw seems at least possible. Is that the key to the question: Why do we hear lots of words from Germany on rule of law, but see no action? /4

— Daniel Freund (@daniel_freund) September 19, 2020

Grateful for this research by @direkt36 as it highlights policies, agendas and developments that usually remain unknown due to (outdated + unacceptable) intransparency in the European Council /6

— Daniel Freund (@daniel_freund) September 19, 2020

European Parliament has made clear years ago: European values are not negotiable. An agreement with the Council has to include regulations that protect the rule of law. Because democracy keeps our Union together - not selling cars. /ENDhttps://t.co/IHaljkR3fe

— Daniel Freund (@daniel_freund) September 19, 2020

Ferenc Puskás wrote:Njemački kapital kolaborira s neprijateljima demokracije, to mu je u krvi.

Mr.Pink wrote:a to sto ovaj veseljak se pravi pametan pa pita nekog glavonju iz VW kao kako komentarisete to sto vam dobavljaci u kini zaposljavaju ugnjetavane muslimane

ja bi mu odgovorio mrtav ladan pa bolje da ih zaposljavam

Swiss voters have resoundingly rejected an attempt to tear up the country’s agreement with the EU on the free movement of people, in a referendum that echoed the Brexit vote.

The largest party in the Swiss parliament, the rightwing, anti-immigration Swiss People’s party (SVP), called the referendum, arguing that the country must be allowed to set its own limit on the number of foreigners coming in to work.

However, the initiative – opposed by government, parliament, unions, employer organisations and all other political parties because it would put Switzerland’s overall relations with the EU in jeopardy – was rejected by 61.7% of voters, final results showed.

Germany has been accused of caving into Viktor Orbán over the control of EU funds