A Left-Wing Budget

The European Commission has already presented its proposal for the Union’s budget for 2025. After Von der Leyen’s re-election, the bureaucratic machinery is stepping up the pace according to the German’s agenda.

After years of ‘expansive budgets’ and a considerable and extraordinary increase in spending – with the excuse of COVID on the one hand and climate change on the other – political responsibility, common sense and respect for the middle and working classes in Europe, forced to contain, to reduce the debt of the administrations, to reduce taxes and to improve the management, efficiency and transparency of public funds.

However, it is clear that the Von der Leyen II Commission will not be very different from the first version.

Von der Leyen is acting with the support of the majority of the European People’s Party, Socialists, Greens and Progressives. In short, supported by a political machine that wants more spending, more taxes, more bans, more restrictions, more surveillance for Europeans. This is not an opinion, it is a fact.
The budgets presented by the Commission present considerable items on issues that directly affect the rights and public freedoms of Europeans. The Commission increases considerably and creates new items for programmes, projects, bodies and agencies whose ultimate purpose is social control, the limitation of democratic political freedoms such as freedom of opinion or freedom of the press.

Thus, for example, 1.6 million euros are earmarked for an Observatory of Narratives to fight against Disinformation. I am not going to discuss whether the Union has competence in this area, which it does not (it was built during the previous legislature without the protection of the Treaties). The question is more fundamental: who decides what is information and what is disinformation in a world where liberal-left thinking has destroyed all reference to truth? Bureaucrats, civil servants? Supposed experts appointed by the Commission or by some international private entity in the service of partisan political or business interests?

In Spain, to affirm on social networks that 80% of the prisoners between 18 and 22 years of age in the prisons of Catalonia are foreigners is to consider disinformation and hatred; although it is a statistic offered by the Administration itself.

But that is not all. Because the Commission also proposes another 212,000 euros to subsidise fact-checkers. In other words, 212,000 euros to subsidise the control and censorship of opinion in the media and, above all, in social networks.
It is also excessive to allocate 145 million euros for this propagandistic European Solidarity Corps. A Corps that is unnecessary, because if agile and effective mechanisms were established, the member states themselves, with their own means, would offer their solidarity quickly, effectively and more cheaply in extraordinary moments, as they have done for decades, without the need to grow the bureaucratic monster in Brussels.

And what about the more than EUR 10 million allocated to this Fundamental Rights Agency, which has only served as a leftist and globalist instrument to attack European nations when their voters legitimately and freely choose conservative governments? A Fundamental Rights Agency that is silent when the first human right, which is the life and dignity of human being, is violated every day in almost all the nations of Europe?

It is clear that a left-wing Commission was going to propose a left-wing budget. The People’s Party will make a fuss, but it will accept each and every one of these items. Because it does not want to change or improve anything. This is no longer the time to discuss whether more or less money. It is the time to stand up and say no. Enough is enough. Not a single European euro can be spent on anything that does not fall within the competence of the European institutions and that does not have a positive effect on the lives and prosperity of the middle and working classes.