Macron: Evropa mora postati treća supersila, smanjiti ovisnost o SAD-u i izbjeći da bude uvučena u sukob oko Tajvana

EU i UK davaju drzavljanstvo neeuropljanima koji se bore za Ukrajinu. Cilj je jednim udarcem ubiti dvi muhe. Zamjena Europljana i borba protiv Rusije.

Ne, nego da se migranti koji eventualno zaglave u Hrvatskoj mogu preraspodijeliti po drugim državama članicama. Naravno da Poljskoj, primjerice, to ne odgovara, ali odgovara državama koje su prve na migrantskim rutama, kao što je Hrvatska.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. 

As part of the negotiations, the  British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". 

In the first year, "s" will  replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump  with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should  klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There  will be growing publik enthusiasm in  the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20%  shorter. 
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted  to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are  possible. 
Governments will enkourage the removal of double  letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. 

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the  silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. 

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such  as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". 
During ze fifz  yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from  vords kontaining "ou"  and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. 

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil  find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali  kum tru. 
Und  efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze  forst plas. 

PARLIAMENT’S FEDERALIST PUSH
REPRESENTATIVES OF MAIN POLITICAL GROUPS AGREE TO CALL CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: MEPs negotiating on behalf of the European Parliament’s main political groups (EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens and Left) late last night agreed to call for ambitious changes to the EU’s treaties to scrap national vetoes in EU lawmaking.

The deal: The groups agreed to vote on a text that will trigger Article 48 — calling for a constitutional convention to remove unanimity in EU decisions. The MEPs working on that resolution will hold a joint press conference to announce Tuesday night’s deal on September 7, two parliamentarians present at Tuesday’s meeting told Playbook.

Timings: The vote on the resolution has been penned in for October 5 in Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, and later in plenary.

Simple majority voting: According to the deal, Parliament would urge EU countries to replace most qualified majority decisions by a simple majority of 50 percent of EU countries representing at least 50 percent of the EU population, arguing that the current 65 percent of population threshold favors big members such as Germany and France.

Super-qualified majority: Critical decisions on national security and defense (such as deploying EU troops) would need to be taken by a “super qualified majority” of 85 percent of EU countries — meaning unanimity minus four.

The Commission president should no longer be proposed by EU countries, but by the Parliament, the groups also agreed. Parliament should also get a say on the EU’s budget, as well as a right of initiative on EU laws.

The chances of all this happening are low, given EU countries must agree, unanimously, to these changes — meaning Hungary, for example, would have to agree to lose its own veto powers.

Next steps: After Parliament calls for a convention, EU countries need to take a position on whether they will convene one. At least 14 countries are needed to trigger a convention, but currently only around 10 countries are in favor of discussing treaty changes or altering the EU’s unanimity rules, according to officials.

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EU TREATY CHANGE PROPOSAL CALLS FOR FEDERALIST LEAP: Amid all the talk of enlargement and EU reform, one group of EU lawmakers wants to set the cat among the pigeons later this month with a provocative proposal for EU treaty change that — in the unlikely event it were ever accepted by member countries — would radically alter the way the EU works, right down to the names of its institutions.

Brave new world: According to a 116-page draft of the plan obtained by Playbook, the six lawmakers led by Belgian federalist Guy Verhofstadt propose a drastic shift toward qualified majority voting and ordinary legislative procedures in dozens of areas including defense, taxation and foreign policy. In other words: Bye-bye to national vetoes, hello to rule-by-the-majority, tightly overseen by Parliament.

Rebranding: The draft, which was dated August 17, contains plenty more bangers — from renaming the European Commission the “European Executive” to drastically expanding the powers of Parliament to giving the EU exclusive competence over all environmental and climate matters, and shared competence on almost everything else.

Coming soon: Signed by five lawmakers in addition to Verhofstadt (German Christian Democrat Sven Simon, German Social Democrat Gabriele Bischoff, German Greens MEP Daniel Freund and Polish Law and Justice MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski), the finished pitch is due to be unveiled sometime in September, a person familiar with the plans, who asked not to be named, told Playbook.

Oh, Parliament … There’s little doubt that ambassadors sitting down with von der Leyen today will scoff at the proposal and its plans to radically expand Parliament’s powers (including letting the assembly put forward names for top jobs to be approved by Council, rather than the other way around). “It’s a provocation,” said one senior EU diplomat with whom Playbook shared some of the draft’s contents. “In Council there is no majority for treaty change.”

Well, our lawyers say: “The Council’s legal service has been advising us for months already that the Lisbon Treaty is ‘enlargement proof,'” the diplomat added.

Changes needed anyway: Yet the proposal’s authors argue that the bloc’s plans for enlargement “make a reform of its Treaties inevitable.” And while any proposal for treaty change is likely to get a frosty reception from many EU diplomats unwilling to face the prospect of failed treaty referendums (Ireland and the treaties of Nice and Lisbon, anyone?), the authors aren’t wrong in saying that any substantial enlargement of the EU will require far-reaching changes to the bloc’s functioning.

No treaty change, please: Big EU countries don’t deny this — in fact capitals such as Berlin insist on the need for changes to qualified majority voting and the bloc’s long-term budget as a necessary corollary to enlargement (see Thursday’s Playbook interview with the German, French and Portuguese ministers for Europe, for example). They just believe the changes can be achieved via tweaks to the Lisbon Treaty and artful use of the so-called passerelle clauses, which allow for changes to the treaty without having to consult electorates.

So far, so wacky: The received wisdom among many Europeans, whose last experience with treaty change dates back almost 15 years, is that trying again is a fool’s errand. Yet the bloc is also embarking on a potentially seismic shift in its size and membership. What was true today may not be tomorrow, etc. Stay tuned.