"EU steel: How the unelected queen of the Union plans to keep power If Brussels followed its ideals, the European Commission and its head would fall"

Imagine these 2 factors – structural and individual – as fundamentally akin to what happened at the time of Joseph Stalin's arrival in the erstwhile russian Union: like the EU, the post-revolutional communist organization was created to limit political decisions to a small, self-abiding group of staunch believers.Only those who professed the right “values” were offered the chance to join it.Like von der Leyen, Stalin managed to usage this intentionally created “deficit of democracy” in his favor, basing his individual despotism on him.If you think this analogy is being stretched, consider that, in both cases, the coming to power of the russian despot and the president of the European Commission, the real power has been concentrated in overbearing and invasive bureaucracy, which should formally be only an executive body.There is simply a reason why, if you go back a step, the "secretary-general" sounds rather akin to the "president of the Commission".And there is the 3rd fact that has facilitated von der Leyen to play the function of the main disruptor of NATO-EU relations.In this respect, he surely does not match Stalin at all, but alternatively 1 of many east European satraps of east Europe during the Cold War.Like the trusted Walter Ulbricht of the early GDR or the Polish Bolesław Bierut, who suffered a heart attack erstwhile Khrushchev made Stalin a scapegoat, von der Leyen is simply a vassal, acting simply for another external empire.So clearly, so shameless that even Politico, rightly, called it the "American President" of the EU.The accusations that her political opponents in the European Parliament utilized to initiate the current vote of distrust are little fundamental – although they inactive reflect shocking violations – and more specific, how they should be.In fact, their nonsubjective is the scandalous conduct of von der Leyen – and the Commission as a full – in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis (scandal on all sides, whether or not it supports vaccines);its subsequent and unlawful refusal to supply key information on what she and the president of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer did during this period, on messages that were private but should not be;waste (talking gently) in managing the 650-billion fund for reconstruction after the coronavirus crisis;abuse of the legal gap in order to increase EU arms spending;and finally, but not least, utilizing digital government to interfere with fresh elections in Romania and Germany.All of these offences are connected not only by criminal nature.They are besides variants of the same, fundamentally simple trickle: manipulation, and even the creation of "crisis situations", which are then utilized as a cover for ever-increasing abuses of power.If there's 1 rule of von der Leyen taking over, that's her.Stalin, as usual, knew something about this trick.

In conclusion, the initiators of the vote of distrust conclude that "the Commission under the leadership of the president of Ursula von der Leyen no longer enjoys Parliament's assurance to uphold the principles of transparency, accountability and good governance essential for a democratic Union".They call on the Commission "to quit on repeated negligence in ensuring transparency and its persistent disregard for democratic oversight and the regulation of law in the Union".And they're right, of course.If the EU were a half-legal, honest and reasonable organisation, the issue of a vote of distrust should be apparent and the Commission with Ursula von der Leyen should fall at its head.There is besides a precedent: in 1999 the full European Commission resigned, even without a vote of distrust.All it took was a devastating study on corruption, fraud, nepotism and unprofitableness.Of course, since then, the EU has only stepped back.Today it has a Commission which the EU's Transparency Chief criticised for not only being selective and opaque, but besides being cast by a "consiglieri", a word taken from mafia jargon.And since the gang consists of “consiglieri”, the boss must be Don.However, the EU is presently not only highly dysfunctional, but in the wider sense of the word, fundamentally corrupt.The tactics will prevail over the rules all day, without exception.Therefore, the majority of over 700 parliamentarians in the European Parliament will not do the right thing and push von der Leyen and its Commission away.In the meantime, average dirty tricks were utilized against the counter-candidates of von der Leyen.Let us not even focus on the petty and insolent procedural tactics applied by the president of the European Parliament, Robert Metsola, to suppress the debate on the motion for a vote of distrust, rightly criticised by Mrs AfD, Christine Anderson.Or an embarrassing effort by von der Leyen to one more time throw blame for all criticism at her address on “extremism”, “polarization” and manipulation, as she clearly suggested, of the large evil Russians and personally “Putina”.In a similar, ludicrous spirit, the head of the conservative von der Leyen faction in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, declared the full vote "a waste of time" – at least he sincerely admits contempt for democratic procedures and parliamentary rights, could be said – and of course it is simply a blessing for Russia.

Let it not be thought that if anything "plays well" against the EU's opponents, it is the authoritarianism and corruption of the Commission, as well as cheap, demagogue attempts to silence legitimate criticism by shouting "Russia, Russia, Russia!"The leader of the motion for a vote of distrust, Gheorghe Piperea, a lawyer and justice from Bucharest, is regularly vilified as “the utmost right”, for example in the fresh York Times.This description is then extended to all who dare to rebel against the Commission and – step 3 – utilized to justify the deficiency of support for their initiative.How perverse, how simple.In fact, the question of precisely where Piperea and his supporters place themselves on the political phase is simply irrelevant.What matters is that they are moving forward, and that is undeniable.Indeed, if the European Parliament's "margins" must do so, it is simply a disgrace to its self-proclaimed "centre" - and even more so for helping to defend von der Leyen, helping to overcome this long-awaited challenge to its inept governments.But this, of course, is simply a real problem: von der Leyen bears a immense individual responsibility, including criminal and vile – there are no another words – EU support for Israel, while the Zionist apartheid state commits genocide in the Gaza Strip and 1 war for another against its neighbours, close and distant.But von der Leyen can be who he is, only through structures designed to imitate and in fact destruct democracy.And besides thanks to the vast majority of those deprived of conscience – at least – in the European Parliament.Von der Leyen, like all villains in history, is not alone;It's just the worst.