The European Commission proposed a draft set of measures to strengthen the legal anti-corruption framework across all European Union Member States. The Proposed Directive contains a dual focus on preventing corruption before it occurs and repressing corrupt acts.
The European Union is pouring enormous amounts of money into the United States. Regular multimillion-dollar payments to individuals and organizations in the U.S. raise important questions over Brussels’ interference in U.S. political and social debates including climate change, the death penalty, and membership of the International Criminal Court. It is also not possible to justify EU human rights budgets being spent in one of the world’s freest nations. The EU budget has become synonymous with profligacy, waste, fraud, and mismanagement. It is beyond time for EU member state governments and European parliamentarians to take action. And it is Congress’s duty to ascertain whether these expenditures are in compliance with U.S. laws, and to ensure that American interests are protected.
The European Union's Lisbon Treaty was supposed to streamline the EU bureaucracy and improve communication between the two sides of the Atlantic. Instead, it essentially allows the EU a foreign policy power-grab, the driving force of which is the notion that the countries of Europe will be stronger collectively than they are separately. Sovereignty cannot be traded for influence, and the EU's attempts to do so could threaten the security of Europe and of the United States.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Sunday it was no surprise that Moscow and Beijing were blocking efforts at the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo as the international efforts to halt the violence in Myanmar is yet to yield results. The world is horrified by the bloody military coup in Myanmar, with reports of more than 80 people killed in Bago last Friday. We are pursuing a robust diplomatic initiative in close coordination with like-minded partners. However, geopolitical competition in Myanmar makes it difficult to find common ground, to halt the violence and ensure a return to democracy, Borell wrote in a blog post.