La “dictature molle” (Merkel) a un plan pour les Anglais

La “dictature molle” (Merkel) a un plan pour les Anglais

Le document divulgué par le Daily Telegraph de ce 17 novembre 2011 fait grand bruit à Londres. Il s’agit d’un plan émanant dans l’esprit de la “dictature molle” européenne, et émanant précisément d’une des plus actives représentantes de la chose, la kaizer Angela Merkel, pour bloquer toute possibilité de référendum sur des changements fondamentaux de l’Union européenne, tel que de nombreux conservateurs britanniques le demandent. Ce référendum serait conçu pour réduire les pouvoirs des institutions européennes et rendre aux nations certaines de leurs prérogatives souveraines.

Pour Merkel, et sans doute pour Merkozy-Sarkel également, cette idée d’une restructuration de l’UE avec réduction de ses pouvoirs implique des blocages importants dans le plan général de “sauvetage” des Etats faillis. Mais cet aspect technique, d’ailleurs discutable dans tous les sens et jusqu’ici fort peu efficace, est largement supplanté par le problème fondamental de la souveraineté, entre les Etats membres et les institutions de l’UE. C’est cette question qu’aborde directement, dans le sens qu’on imagine, le “plan Merkel”, avec des idées impliquant au contraire l'accroissement de transferts de souveraineté des nations vers les institutions européennes. Les Britanniques réagissent avec une grande vigueur, travaillant dans ce cas au sein du grand débat de la légitimité, dans un sens hostile à la “dictature molle”. Encore une intéressante contradiction de circonstance, entre la politique générale anglo-saxonne et hyper-libérale de dilution des souverainetés dans des grands ensembles anthropotechnocratique, notamment selon leurs conceptions économiques, et cette politique générale se trouvant dans cette circonstance essentiellement contredite, dans son esprit, par le Royaume-Uni lui-même.

«Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is today expected to tell David Cameron that Britain does not need a referendum on EU treaty changes, despite demands from senior Conservatives for more powers to be repatriated to Britain.

»The leaked memo, written by the German foreign office, discloses radical plans for an intrusive new European body that will be able to take over the economies of beleaguered eurozone countries. It discloses that the EU’s largest economy is also preparing for other European countries, which are too large to be bailed out, to default on their debts — effectively going bankrupt. It will prompt fears that German plans to deal with the eurozone crisis involve an erosion of national sovereignty that could pave the way for a European “super state” with its own tax and spending plans set in Brussels. Britain would be relegated to a new outer group of EU members who are not in the single currency.

»Mr Cameron will today travel to Brussels and Berlin for tense negotiations with Mrs Merkel amid growing disagreement between the leaders over how to deal with the eurozone. The Prime Minister is increasingly exasperated that Germany refuses to provide more financial help for Italy and other struggling countries amid concerns that the crisis is having a “chilling effect” on the British economy. Mrs Merkel yesterday said she expected Mr Cameron to “examine a stronger involvement with other countries” once the eurozone crisis had been resolved.

»She said: “We’ve seen a sovereign debt crisis evolve in some states and particularly those in the eurozone find themselves in the international focus.” “It was right of David Cameron to concern himself with the UK’s debt issues when he became Prime Minister — that’s my firm conviction, and once the negative focus has moved away from Europe, he will examine a stronger involvement with other countries.” […]

»The six-page German foreign ministry paper sets out plans for the creation of a European Monetary Fund with a transfer of sovereignty away from member states. The fund will have the power to take ailing countries into receivership and run their economies. Even more controversially, the document, entitled The future of the EU: required integration policy improvements for the creation of a Stability Union, declares that the treaty changes are a first stage “in which the EU will develop into a political union”. “The debate on the way towards a political union must begin as soon as the course toward stability union is charted,” it concludes. The negotiating document also explicitly examines ways to limit treaty changes to speed up the reforms. It indicates that Mrs Merkel will tell Mr Cameron to rule out a popular EU vote in Britain.w […]

»Open Europe, a think tank, last night called for Mr Cameron to demand something in return from Mrs Merkel for her “far-reaching plan”, which requires the unanimous consent of all 27 EU countries, giving Britain a veto. “It would be the first step towards a vision of 'political union’ that would have major consequences for the future of the entire EU, and therefore the UK’s place within it,” said Stephen Booth, the think tank Director.»

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