Confrontation between EU, member states institutions predictable, says MEP Trócsányi

Fidesz MEP László Trócsányi said in an article published in Wednesday’s Magyar Nemzet that confrontations between the European Union’s institutions and those of member states were predictable as “the balance outlined in the EU treaties have been upset” and the EU is “showing tendencies that institutions of the individual member states reject”.

Trócsányi, Hungary’s former justice minister, wrote an analysis on the German constitutional court’s ruling rejecting a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the European Central Bank’s economic stimulus package, which Germany said violated “German constitutional identity”.

In the article, Trócsányi said

the role of the European Council comprising the member states’ heads of state and government, was losing its weight.

The European Commission, on the other hand, often “grinds down member states’ opposition” and forces its decisions on them, he said. Those decisions often seem to seek a “stealthy expansion” of EU competencies, he said, as if the EU institutions had forgotten that the member states are “lords of the treaties.”