MEPs Outraged as Commission Bypasses Parliament in Rearmament Scheme
13th March 2025
Members of the European Parliament (EP) have rebuked the European Commission for aiming to bypass them using an emergency clause to fast-track the legislative process. The reprimand came on Wednesday, March 12th, as MEPs adopted a resolution to endorse the basic outlines of the European Union executive’s colossal €800 billion defense investment scheme, as well as to call for the EU’s further military integration.
The core proposal of the Commission’s ‘ReArm Europe’ scheme is a massive €150 billion joint loan for arms procurement. To speed up the approval, Brussels is invoking Article 122 of the EU treaty, which allows legislative files to skip parliamentary negotiations during states of emergency and go straight to the EU Council to be tweaked and adopted by member states in record time.
This means that if the Commission proceeds as planned, the only EU body with directly elected members will have no say about the final contents of what is potentially the term’s most important package—except for holding meaningless debates and passing non-binding resolutions should it so wish.
Eurocrats don’t give a shit about your so-called democracy.