As any may inactive remember, there was a alleged democratic centralism in the Polish People's Republic. Now the European Union, as a worthy successor of the communist dystopia, has besides developed its own kind of centralism – namely, financial centralism, which has just been reflected in the draft budget presented for the period 2028-2034 at a evidence of EUR 2 trillion.
Piotr Lewandowski
It is based on the fact that the EU budget is to be a tool for the centralisation of the EU and its transformation into a superstate, due to the fact that this is how revolutionary changes in its structure and its spending mechanisms should be interpreted.
What's it gonna look like in detail? First of all, it has been implemented on a large scale by regulations tested in the context of the introduction of the NextGenerationEU fund to finance National Reconstruction Plans. Attention is drawn to the crucial widening of the scope of the EU's alleged own resources, i.e. European taxes and charges. According to the proposal, they would include: a CBAM taxation (a border charge on carbon footprint of imported goods); a charge on unprocessed plastic; a nicotine charge (smokers will surely enjoy another extremist increase in tobacco prices); a handling fee, i.e. a charge on parcels imported from outside the EU (this in turn will hit consumers buying, for example, on Chinese e-commerce platforms); an e-waste charge, i.e. electronic waste (and thus electronics prices will besides go up); a border charge for people coming from outside Europe (i.e., I understand, besides for workers from abroad, which in turn “will delight” our entrepreneurs); an income from ETS1, i.e. trading CO2 emissions allowances. All these taxes will be collected by the associate States and transferred to the EU budget, which will consequence in the request to grow customs and taxation equipment (with additional cost of maintenance). As a result, associate States will become taxation collectors for Brussels, and it will be only for the associate States to decide on the allocation of the resources raised. In short, we will have no influence on spending money on any of the taxes collected in our territory.
How will this central division work? Since 2028, the rule of conditionality has already been known by the NCP and partially by the "regular" EU budget. Therefore, the "milestones" or "money for the regulation of law" strategy will become an integral part of the division of European funds – this gives the European Commission powerful power and a tool for force on associate States. To put it plainly, it opens up a field of unlimited political blackmail, which we have been able to convince ourselves about in terms of resources for the KPO. As we remember, Poland was not a country sufficiently "lawful" erstwhile it had a government conflicted with Brussels – after which, after the change of power, it abruptly turned out that this legendary "lawfulness" was miraculously recovered, even though the existing law did not change by a jota. In practice, therefore, the European Commission will be able to spend its resources on its own terms and political demand, like candy to polite children, constantly chessing financially disobedient states. Of course, in the first place, this will apply to countries specified as Poland, as it is hard to imagine that “Mrs. Kindergarten” Ursula von der Leyen dared to treat France in a akin way, especially her native Germany. In conclusion, we will transfer our contributions to the central budget and our EU taxes (I stress – bearing the costs of collecting them) and then, if we are submissive and obedient, we may learn something from it. If in the next election he wins an option from the point of view of the Brussels elite "improprietary" (and much indicates so), then we are going to have hits identical to the KPO, only on a mega scale, due to the fact that all euro will depend on the good will of the EC now. In fact, EU officials do not even hide that specified a way of sharing funds should, among another things, discipline those who are reluctant to implement the migration pact. In view of this, the announcement that we will stay the net beneficiary of the euro-funds seems to have grown strongly.
This is not the end, due to the fact that the resources for the Common Agricultural Policy will be cut by EUR 87 billion (from the current 387 billion will be 300 billion, i.e. we have a continuation of the "lifetime" of European agriculture), and the CAP itself will be included in the National and Regional Partnership Programmes and will be distributed among EU policies. Cohesion funds will besides have a akin fate.
However, there is besides a large win for the fresh financial hand – it is Ukraine, which will receive EUR 100 billion to rob between the oligarchs there and the political class walking on their belt, which in Ukrainian realities is more than certain. It is good to know that thanks to EU generosity individual will get better!
