“We can no longer allow for us to be hostages of those who are paralyzing European foreign policy with their vetoes. Even if it means that we too may be outvoted,” he said.

He declared that the veto mechanism must be removed and that he supports the introduction of a majority vote system. The issue over the veto mechanism is meant to become a central point of discussions on Europe’s future at upcoming conferences.

Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski referred to Maas’s recent statement on social media. He stressed that the veto mechanism has been protecting smaller EU states from German hegemony.

Romanowski warned that if the change proposed by the German foreign minister is introduced, then there may be serious consequences for Europe.

“The German FM stated that the EU veto mechanism should be removed. After all, this is the last remaining mechanism that blocks German hegemony. Germany clearly can no longer bear the situation in which other countries refuse to accept its vision. They’d managed to do so for a long time, anyway,” the deputy minister wrote on social media.

Germany’s Maas did not name names, but Hungary had recently blocked EU foreign policy statements. Apparently exasperated by Budapest’s stance, the junior minister at Germany’s foreign ministry, Miguel Berger, had called out Hungary on Twitter last week.

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The right for individual EU member states to veto decisions must be scrapped, Germany’s foreign minister has declared.

Heiko Maas said that the 27-member bloc cannot be hamstrung by single hold-outs.

“We can no longer be held hostage by those who paralyze European foreign policy through their vetoes,” Mr. Maas said, accusing those doing so of “playing with Europe’s cohesion”.

He added: “I, therefore, say quite openly: the veto must go – even if that means we too can be outvoted.”

Mr. Maas did not name names, but Hungary had recently blocked EU foreign policy statements.

Apparently exasperated by Budapest’s stance, the junior minister at Germany’s foreign ministry, Miguel Berger, had called out Hungary on Twitter last week.

“Hungary again blocked an EU-Statement on #Hongkong. Three weeks ago it was on the Middle East.

“Common Foreign and Security Policy #CFSP cannot work on the basis of a blocking policy. We need a serious debate on ways to manage dissent, including qualified majority voting,” Mr. Berger wrote.

In a public row in mid-May, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto slammed the EU’s “one-sided” statements on Israel as his European counterparts called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians.

Hungary and Poland had also threatened to veto the recovery fund last year along with the entire EU budget over proposals to link some fund payments to rule-of-law conditions, describing it as “political blackmail”.

Source: https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0607/1226474-germany-veto-call/

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