In particular, the Socialist candidate proposes to accentuate the fight against poverty, to strengthen the rights of women, to increase the prerogatives of the European Parliament and to establish “incomes and coherent minimum wages”.
Le Monde with AFP
“Carbon Fix” at the borders, legislative initiative for the European Parliament, “European Union of Health”, “Joint Strategic Doctrine”: Anne Hidalgo, candidate for the presidential election 2022, presented Thursday 16 December His project to “live better” in the European Union (EU), In a text published on the site of the magazine the large continent , at the time when” a bad wind breath on The European debate “, according to it.
Convinced by the European project, inspired by the social democratic forces of the different countries of the continent, the Mayor of Paris pleads in favor of increased cooperation between the 27 EU Member States. “Our only real tool is the strengthening and autonomy of the European Union,” she says. The candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) wishes to “make the human and planet the new political priorities of European construction”.
Increase the prerogatives of the European Parliament
The European project sketched by M me Hidalgo advocates in particular the “defense of human dignity”, the establishment of “income and coherent minimum wages” in each member country, the ” Fight against poverty “, the defense of the” rights of women and [du] right to abortion “and the” even more voluntarist implementation of the green pact [European] “.
The Paris Edile also proposes to strengthen the prerogatives of the European Parliament so that the latter “shares the initiative of the laws and can amend the multiannual budget” and “to have the last word in the adoption of the law by being able to pass In addition to the opposition of the Council, subject to obtaining a qualified majority of two-thirds “.
According to her, the European law is “at the root of the construction of the Union”. “Inverting the legal order would be tantamount to wanting to leave the Union,” says Anne Hidalgo, while several right candidates, during the race for the investiture of the Republicans (LR) – whose former European Commissioner And negative of Brexit Michel Barnier – but also extreme right candidates, called into question the primacy of European law in recent weeks on national law. “There is no room for illiberal democracy in Europe”, hammers the socialist candidate.
Provide a “more demanding” response to the climate urgency
On ecology, M me hidalgo calls to “implement a real carbon fix” at the borders of the European Union and urges the 27 Member States to provide a “more demanding” answer at the climate emergency. It depends on by the establishment of “specific objectives and a calendar by country”, as well as by a “revision” of existing policies, including the common agricultural policy (CAP).
The socialist candidate also wants “reform the energy market” and “tax the super-profits of energy groups” to “finance support for renewable energies and the purchasing power of the middle and popular classes”.
In its project sketch, Anne Hidalgo also welcomes the “collapse of liberal dogmas” and “the suspension of the stability pact” within the EU, because of the CVIV-19 crisis . But “this turning point must not be a parenthesis,” she warned.
It finally wants “a fast, massive, massive, coordinated investment” to “go to an industrial reconquest” in particular to better “face sanitary, digital and ecological challenges.
Concerning European Defense, theme often put forward by President Emmanuel Macron, who will take the top presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months, Anne Hidalgo proposes a European conference on the security of Europe to define “a common strategic doctrine” between the 27 member countries.