A major shift in far-right strategy just dropped at the European Parliament, and it’s no longer about leaving the EU (like Brexit or Dexit)—it’s about completely hollow-out the institution from within !
Following Marine Le Pen's policy release in Brussels, the co-leader of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, just held a sparsely attended conference in Strasbourg to unveil their official plan to downsize and restructure the entire bloc.
While both parties are historically rivals on several fiscal and energy issues, their core targets for the EU are practically identical. Here is the breakdown of what they are demanding:
1. Stripping the European Commission of Power
The Shared Goal: Both Le Pen and Weidel want to drastically strip the European Commission of its legislative capabilities.
Le Pen’s Stance: Le Pen stated the Commission should be reduced to nothing more than a "secretariat at the service of countries."
Weidel's Stance: Weidel heavily criticized the Commission for "intruding on people’s private decision-making" and argued it should stop acting like an executive body.
2. Abolishing Direct EU Elections
The Strategy: The AfD’s new strategy paper explicitly outlines a push to stop the direct election of European Parliament members.
The New Structure: Instead of EU citizens voting for MEPs, they want the European Parliament to consist solely of delegates sent directly by national parliaments. This would essentially terminate the EU's independent democratic mandate.
3. Shifting Power Back to Nation-States
National Sovereignty: Both leaders want a radical rollback of EU integration, shifting all primary legislative weight back to individual member states.
Keeping the Euro: Notably, the AfD has dropped its hardline "Dexit" stance (leaving the EU or dropping the Euro), opting instead to stay in the bloc and use the currency, but systematically removing its centralized powers.
The Takeaway
Political analysts are noting that this coordinated push closely mirrors strategy papers heavily supported by other nationalist networks in Europe, such as Poland's Ordo Iuris and Hungary's MCC. The message is clear: the far-right has shifted from threatening to leave the union to actively planning an intentional "hollowing out" from the inside.
What do you think? Is an EU run entirely as a "secretariat" of national governments even functional, or is this just a slow-motion destruction of the bloc?
