Cooperation between “European oligarchs” sets the direction of European Union policy-making, the Minister for European Affairs said on social media on Tuesday.
“They (the oligarchs) are trying to suppress and question the European identity of anyone outside their circle,” Janos Boka said.
He said Ursula von der Leyen had been re-elected as head of the European Commission thanks to the votes of “liberals and greens who suffered the greatest losses” in the recent European parliamentary elections, but she “categorically refuses to cooperate” with empowered far-right groups such as the ECR and Patriots for Europe.
“This indicates that the EC’s political platform will be extremely vulnerable in the next five years,” he added.
Boka insisted that several elements of von der Leyen’s program, such as efforts to strengthen competitiveness, defense policy and agricultural policy, “echo issues addressed in the policies of the European People’s Party and right-wing groups.” But her “real supporters” are to the left of the EPP, he said.
The minister said the new EC was “a kind of party political committee”, since von der Leyen “has clearly defined certain political forces with which she does not want to cooperate, but rather to pursue policies against them” over the next five years.
Ursula von der Leyen and the EU’s policy “is moving in the direction of federalism,” Boka said, adding that she “wants to create a European investigative agency out of Europol and make Frontex a European border guard,” which he said “would lay the foundations for a European intelligence service.”
“These federalist efforts are not unconditionally supported by the members,” he added.
At the same time, under von der Leyen’s plans, the EC would be given “complete control” over EU funding, while the current budget system “based on programmes and projects” would be eliminated, Boka said.
“Instead, it wants a budget that is politically based, which would make access to EU funds conditional on serious reforms and political preconditions,” he said, adding that the plans aimed at a complete restructuring of the EU budget. “It will be impossible for an outside observer to see how much the Commission wants to spend and for what purposes,” he added.
