Parties: Seven Commissioners – CSU for reducing the size of the EU Commission

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Seven Commissioners – CSU for reducing the size of the EU Commission

“Europe must concentrate on its core tasks with renewed vigor,” says CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt. photo

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If the CSU has its way, Europe needs a diet from the authorities and the powerful EU Commission. In keeping with this, EU Commission President von der Leyen is expected at the CSU retreat this weekend.

In the opinion of the EU Commission, CSU personnel in the Bundestag will be radically reduced. “A fast and efficient EU is the prerequisite for being internationally relevant and able to react in crises. This requires profound reforms to the institutions and processes as well as a significant reduction in the size of the EU Commission and its civil service,” says the draft position paper , which is available to the German Press Agency in Munich. “We are therefore demanding that in future there will only be seven instead of 27 commissioners and that the other member states will be represented by junior commissioners.”

“Europe must concentrate with new vigor on its core tasks: creating prosperity, ensuring security and defending sovereignty,” said regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt to the dpa. This requires efficient institutions with a lean EU Commission at the top. “The goal must be to create a Europe that can assert itself in the world in a competitive, defense-ready and strategically independent manner.” The CSU’s desire to slim down goes even further: “We also want to critically examine the number and structure of the EU authorities and agencies.”

EU Commission President at CSU retreat

The European passage is part of a position paper that the members of the Bundestag want to adopt at their retreat starting on Saturday in the Seeon monastery in Upper Bavaria. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), among others, is also expected to attend the retreat. In view of the CSU’s latest demands, the conversation with her should not only be about the European elections in June.

Another central point in the paper is the demand for the official end of the EU accession process with Turkey: “Turkey under President Erdogan has chosen a path that is incompatible with the interests, values ​​and identity of the European Union,” it says it as justification. The CSU also rejects any mutualization of debts and calls for new free trade agreements with the USA, Australia, India and the states of the Mercosur and Asean economic alliances in South America and Asia.

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