Published: 05.04.2025
Introduction:
On March 11, 2025, two European think tanks, the Polish Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture and the Hungarian Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), presented a newly published report at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. The report proposes a reform of the European Union aimed at protecting the individual freedom of citizens in EU Member States, the democratic principles, accountability of governing institutions, and the sovereignty of EU Member States. This is the first positive proposal for comprehensive changes to the structure and functioning of the European Union, which could be considered an alternative to the growing push by European bureaucratic elites toward centralization of power in the EU.
The report, titled “The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the European Union,” constitutes a counterproposal to the European Parliament resolution of November 22, 2023, which calls for 267 changes to the European Treaties. If implemented, this resolution would transform the EU into a centralized superstate, remove decision-making further from citizens, and deprive EU countries of the right to self-determination.
The counter-project drafted by Ordo Iuris and the MCC acknowledges, too, the urgent need for radical change in the functioning of the European Union. However, it provides a different diagnosis of the main flaws of the current model and suggests an alternative resolution to the issues afflicting Europe, in contrast to the views of EU bureaucrats.
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• The European Union’s Council Conclusions on EU Priorities in UN Human Rights Fora in 2025 identify key areas of EU human rights activities at UN fora and refers to several universal human rights, such as freedom from torture and freedom of religion or belief.
• Last week, experts from the Ordo Iuris Institute attended the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, the largest global gathering of countries and organizations focused on women's rights.
A wave of hysteria erupted last week following the presentation of a blueprint for sweeping reforms of the European Union at the Heritage Foundation's headquarters in Washington. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski even suggested that the Ordo Iuris Institute was advising Donald Trump's administration.
As the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Dean Spielmann, pointed out in an opinion issued on March 11 regarding the primacy of EU law over national constitutions, Poland has violated its obligations t
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