Brussels, clinging to its green-red ideology, is unwilling to give up any of the restrictions that are leading to the destruction of the industry and agriculture that form the economic basis of European countries.

The European Commission’s leaked draft budget clearly proves that Brussels has finally given up on taking into account the interests of Member States and conservative European voters. The draft is a budget for a progressive European superstate, in which free-market capitalism, affordable energy and strong industry would be replaced by “development programmes” and aid financed by joint debt, while food supplies would be provided by imports from colonised Ukrainian territories instead of European farmers.

On the eve of World War II, many warned of the threat posed by red and brown dictatorships. Friedrich August von Hayek, for example, described central planning as a precursor to totalitarianism in his 1939 book. Looking at the Von der Leyen Commission’s draft budget, this warning could not be more relevant. Brussels, clinging to its green-red ideology, is unwilling to give up any of the restrictions that are leading to the destruction of the industry and agriculture that form the economic basis of European countries. It continues to push for the green transition and decarbonisation, is phasing out cheap and effective pesticides, would ban imports of cheap Russian gas and oil, would withdraw land-based subsidies for European producers, and, with the admission of Ukraine, would flood Europe with poor-quality grain at dumped prices, produced by large American and Western European companies.

The Brussels elite is implementing this plan knowing full well that it will ruin European farmers, cause factory workers to lose their jobs, and impoverish the people of Europe, who will eat poor-quality, unhealthy imported food instead of the high-quality local products they are accustomed to. This is a level of centralisation similar to that implemented by Stalin’s Soviet Union, which caused a global catastrophe, including the Ukrainian famine that led to the deaths of millions. The parallels between Brussels and Moscow also lie in the fact that Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission, like the Stalinist administration, considers regional national, linguistic, historical and religious characteristics – in short, the culture of European countries – to be obstacles to progress that must be eliminated. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Commission’s budget would, with a stroke of the pen, abolish Europe’s economic structure, which has so far proved viable, including agriculture, the French and German car industries, and the Hungarian factories that are organically linked to the latter and account for a significant proportion of our national product. Similarly to the communist planned economy, it would embark on economic experiments doomed to failure, the burden of which would be borne by the Member States through joint debt. The recipe for the predictable failures will be even greater debt, just as Brussels now wants to get Member States to take out new loans to repay the debts incurred for its failed RePowerEu programme. And if all this were not enough to destroy European SMEs, family farms and, more generally, European middle class, Brussels, having gained absolute power, will also introduce a guaranteed basic income, forcing the manual labour force to stay at home instead of doing value-creating work.

And, of course, like all totalitarian projects, Brussels’ mammoth European federal state, which is to be built at a cost of (currently) two trillion euros, has its own ideology. Alongside red and green slogans, woke and arbitrary notions of the “rule of law” will serve as intellectual cudgels to silence those who express dissent. Compliance with “rule of law conditions” will be a prerequisite for any payment from the large, centralised EU budget. We know very well from Brussels’ treatment of the Visegrad countries and Romania what this means. If Poland uses force to steer public television in the “right” direction, that’s fine. If Romania excludes the frontrunner from the presidential election, that’s perfectly fine too. However, if the Hungarian government tries to enable Hungarian parents to protect their children from the LGBTQ propaganda that is flooding the country, this calls for immediate intervention and sanctions against the country.

We have some good news at the end. The Commission’s budget plan will come to nothing. It failed as soon as it was leaked, because even globalist governments enjoying the unlimited support of the left-wing international media cannot afford to betray the interests of their voters to such an extent.

But it is still astonishing that such a plan came out of the Brussels machine at all, and even more so that it was “their” draft. If we are not vigilant, sooner or later they will carry out their plan.