For some time now, the European values contained in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (hereinafter, EU), which constitute the hard core of its construction, have been trampled, condemned, crushed and even belittled by autocratic governments seeking to finance their hate speech against diversity and national constitutional norms without hesitation or scruples.
I once had the opportunity to read a Chinese proverb that said, "Live in difficult times"! And it is at this precise moment when they make perfect sense.
When we were still assimilating the recent victory that abruptly shook the European agenda last Sunday, September 11 in the elections in Sweden: the social democracy led by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson won, again, clearly as the first force (with 30% of the votes), an alternative coalition, in which the EPP (called "Moderates") and a battered far right ("Swedish Democrats") converge, rises to the second position. It should be recalled that the current Czech presidency of the Council of the EU will cease to be so due to its rotating nature, to be assumed by the Swedish far right, the first semester of 2023, immediately before the successive Spanish one in the second semester of 2023.
The impact of this far-reaching event, where a Swedish government is formed that supports xenophobic discourses that strongly reject immigrants, cannot be ignored.
But, something unprecedented would come weeks later, when the worst omens finally came true. The Italian elections resulted in a victory for the sum of the right (Forza Italia) with a clear leadership of Fratelli d`Italia (26%) and Giorgia Meloni (heir, yes, of the post-fascism of MSI that boasts in its political symbols currently). The far right will thus be at the head of the Government of a great founding country of the construction of the present (and future?) of Europe that advocated for the highly demanded and discussed binding solidarity and shared responsibility included in the TFEU in the new Migration and Asylum pact that the European Parliament is preparing, which urgently and quickly requires its study and efforts, especially for the States most affected (see, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta).
These are destabilizing and worrying news that orbit on the agenda of European priorities and pretensions and that extend a stain on the State of the EU.
The European Union faces great challenges in its legislative structure, and facing the challenges posed by the governments of the East, Hungary and Poland, is a task that has been carried out with duendo without fruitful solutions. The measures taken in these countries constitute serious injuries to each and every one of the constitutional elements of a State of Law: judicial independence, prosecutorial autonomy, freedom of expression (understood from criticism of the Government), freedom of information, non-discrimination (on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity), respect for minorities, respect for civil society,... Thus, each and every one of the actors participating in a full democracy has suffered, with greater or lesser intensity and repetition, a unilateral assault and weakening.
It is true that it is not correct to convey to the population the -mistaken- impression that the Rule of Law and democracy, in general, within the framework of the EU, are in a terminal phase or in deterioration without short-term recovery, since, despite the increase in Europhobic votes and the extreme right that strongly and decisively break into the European seats, in the generality of the EU there is a good state of health of European values as the Resolutions on the Rule of Law by the European Commission have been establishing on a regular basis.
All the hindrances that we find in the course of validity of these Europhobic and antagonistic governments to the European position of their governments, members of the Union, must be fought and fought with the same force and intensity with which they undertake their speeches of hatred and contrariety.
