Aim, put a stop to the bureaucracy of the European Union. The German conservatives of the CDU are moving to demand that Brussels snip the ‘administrative apparatus’. And the German chancellor himself, Friedrich Merz, takes the lead of that claim.
The movement of the ranks of the main German party can take place in a meeting in which the president of the Commission herself is expected to attend. With the conservative Ursula von der Leyen present, the CDU will launch its demands for cuts to the excessive regulatory pressures of the EC.
Not only has Merz not dodged the issue, but he has jumped right in with striking statements. “This machinery of the European Commission continues to work without stopping,” he noted in September during a business event in the city of Cologne.
“To make it better understood: we have to put a stop to this machinery in Brussels right now, so that it stops,” he added in a call for action against excessive community bureaucracy.
Although a first version demanded a severe reduction to maintain the national budget contribution, the CDU has subsequently lowered its less ‘radical’ claim.
The document in question does include the possibility of subjecting Von der Leyen’s organization to another, control, with veto power on “any new legislation proposed by the European Commission”.
Likewise, it is proposed that this regulatory body become a new entity at the European level, something that would require an internal reform of the EU itself and its articles.
At the level of the European institutions, the draft of the German right seeks to subject the Commission to a reflection on its possible reduction of activity by “reducing the number of employees in the European institutions”.
The motivation for the anti-bureaucracy offensive of the German conservative party responds, continues Politicoto the difficult internal situation of the German Governmenturged to fulfill his promises to reactivate an economy that has been in crisis for years. This rebound would happen, Merz and his team have defended, through far-reaching reforms that would require a reduction in regulatory pressure both at the national and community levels.
But Brussels’ ‘no’ to simplifying its always complex procedures is ruining the emergency plans by Friedrich Merzwhose administration has already halved its growth forecast for 2026… already including the influence of the war in Iran.
So far, the so-called ‘EU Government’ has taken steps in an attempt to simplify its complex bureaucratic regulation, but to an insufficient extent and format in the eyes of the CDU and other important factions within ‘the Twenty-Seven’.
