If the negotiations for common candidacies on the left are dragging on, it is in particular because the disobedience to the European treaties contained in the program of insubordinate France is being debated. We explain to you what this proposal really covers.
Two diametrically opposed views. The question of disobedience to the European treaties contained in the program of insubordinate France is the main stumbling block after hours of negotiation between the Socialist Party and insubordinate France. If those close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon see it as the way to reorient the European Union on the path of social and ecology, the socialists see it as the way towards a possible exit from the Brussels institutions. But what exactly are we talking about?
La France insoumise is aiming for a strategy of « disobedience » to European rules, in the hope of creating a coalition with other countries. With one objective: to reshape the European project in order to reorient it according to its political preferences.
Imposing a « balance of power »
Imagined in 2015 in the midst of the Greek debt crisis, the 2017 program of rebellious France wanted to be very clear: to threaten Brussels to take France out of the EU in the event of refusal by the Member States to revise the treaties.
But Brexit has since been there and the rebels proposed during the last presidential election the strategy of « opt-out », that is to say disobedience to the treaties only on strategic points.
The time has come to suggest a possible Frexit. “We will not leave the European Union”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also specified during his speech on May 1 in the Parisian procession.
« We always say that we will go to the balance of power. It works. Look, (former British Prime Minister) Margaret Thatcher had her discounts like that! », Confided Manuel Bompard, the presidential campaign manager, to BFMTV.com last November.
« Everyone disobeys »
Problem: from a legal point of view, respect for the treaties is one of the foundations of the European Union.
« The European Union is based above all on law, if the Member States decide not to apply it and to give precedence to their national law, then the system collapses », judge Olivier Costa, researcher (CNRS) at the Center Émile Durkheim, in Bordeaux in the columns of Parisian.
On the benches of rebellious France, however, we assume the approach.
« Everyone disobeys European rules, » said Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France 2 on April 30.
And to cite the case of Spain on energy prices » or even « Germany on the competition between drinking water companies ».
France itself with its « whatever the cost », put in place during the Covid-19 crisis, is very far from currently respecting the criteria of the Maastricht Treaty which imposes a maximum deficit of 3%.
Denmark, a symbolic case
Failure to comply with the rules of the treaties may however, without any automaticity, lead to sanctions, following the example of Poland and Hungary.
Warsaw is notably targeted by a procedure linked to the organization of its judicial system which calls into question the independence of judges. Budapest is on its side singled out for questioning LGBT rights, as is also the case for its Polish neighbor. The two countries are subject to a procedure to suspend their access to European funds.
However, some EU Member States have managed to go back on certain commitments, like Denmark for example, which has not been involved in European defense policy for almost 3 decades.
Some also see the discourse surrounding disobedience to the European treaties as an effective campaign tool. The anthropologist Marc Abélès, thus entrusts to the Parisian to perceive there « an announcement effect, a good war during the election period ».