Donald Tusk sows bother on the European Council, Viktor Orban jubilant | EUROtoday
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Dday function on the European Council, in Brussels. Giorgia Meloni was very glad along with her shot that morning. She had managed to prepare, simply earlier than the European summit, a casual assembly between leaders with out inviting France and Germany. On the agenda: “innovative solutions” to switch the administration of migrants outdoors the EU.
After Rwanda (aborted British answer), the brand new trendy nation can be… Uganda. The head of the Italian authorities may boast of her “success”: on October 15, two days earlier than the European summit, she inaugurated her migrant processing heart in Albania.
The Italian had taken care to ask all of the leaders aligned along with her arduous line. The social democrat Mette Frederiksen, the Dutchman Dick Schoof, co-organizers, have been surrounded by the Austrian Karl Nehammer, the Czech Petr Fiala, Maltese and Cypriot leaders. The Greek Mitsotakis was additionally there. Viktor Orban, normally remoted, was lastly handled with respect. The Slovakian Peter Pellegrini was invited. Finally, Donald Tusk, the Pole, arrived final. As if he had taken care to not seem within the photograph…
The infidelities of Ursula von der Leyen
First shock: Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Commission, went there, thus granting this casual assembly the gilding and anointing of the European Commission. This presence didn’t escape the vigilance of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron. As if the German was attempting to flee them, she is normally so caught to the Franco-German traces.
The Council then came about with out incident. Volodymyr Zelensky outlined his “plan for victory”. The Europeans will reply to it later, whereas they’ve time to digest it. Then, the conclusions on the Middle East didn’t pose too many issues. But it’s extra of a rhetorical train on a wonderful line between assist for Israel, the necessity for humanitarian assist for the Palestinians, the decision for a two-state political answer… Of course, on the bottom, the actors will hear nothing, however, for as soon as, the Europeans didn’t quibble an excessive amount of over the phrases.
Donald Tusk throws a chilly
The actual essential course of the Council was migration. And that is the place Donald Tusk’s place posed some difficulties. The conclusions have been accredited by 26… besides by him. Even Viktor Orban, devilishly tactical, didn’t oppose it. However, we all know he’s a fierce opponent of the Migration Pact adopted in May. But, with the talent particular to diplomacy, we took care to spare him with a circumlocution: to please him, the conclusions prevented the time period “migratory pact”, however modestly talked about “the European legislation adopted”. It comes all the way down to the identical factor, however the Hungarian, a wonderful participant, accepted the string… Why? Because he knew he may cover behind Tusk. For as soon as, the function of the “bad guy”, the “complainer”, the “the preventer of concluding in circles” can be held by one other. That saved him from a veto on a budget. Clever.
Donald Tusk, in actual fact, introduced to his counterparts that because it stands, given the state of affairs in his nation on the Belarusian border, the fitting to asylum was suspended on the japanese border of Poland. The day earlier than, his authorities had taken measures on this course as a part of a brand new “migratory strategy”. So he could not again down. With the conclusions unanimously accredited, Tusk’s blockage provoked a brand new spherical of dialogue… At 7 p.m., it was not but sure that European leaders would attain a compromise textual content on migration, a kind of blueprint. powerful highway forward for the brand new European Commission.
Viktor Orban delights within the contradictions of the Commission
But much more shocking: Ursula von der Leyen defined that Tusk’s exemptions have been justified. If Russia and Belarus exploit migration, then the response have to be horrible. And too unhealthy for worldwide obligations or the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. When it involves combating the vile maneuvers of Vladimir Putin and his crony Lukashenko, the fitting to asylum should give manner.
Viktor Orban didn’t fail to level out that if he had allowed himself to say that he was suspending the fitting to asylum in Hungary, he would by no means have obtained approval from the Commission. As luck would have it, Donald Tusk is an EPP chief, the political household of the President of the Commission. So we give him every part. And when it is Hungary that closes its border, it is straight to the Court of Justice of the European Union! The Hungarian chief had enjoyable mockingly about President von der Leyen’s double requirements. He was delighted, per week after the frontal cost suffered from him within the European Parliament…
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