Ursula von der Leyen is now openly pushing to scrap the EU’s unanimity rule, the very safeguard that protects national sovereignty.
“To act faster, the EU must abandon unanimity,” she says.
In other words: efficiency over democracy.
Unanimity isn’t some bureaucratic… pic.twitter.com/66ef2S7yG7
— Richard (@ricwe123) February 15, 2026
Ursula von der Leyen is now openly pushing to scrap the EU’s unanimity rule, the very safeguard that protects national sovereignty. “To act faster, the EU must abandon unanimity,” she says. In other words: efficiency over democracy. Unanimity isn’t some bureaucratic inconvenience, it’s the last line of defense for smaller nations against domination by the bloc’s biggest powers. Strip away veto rights, and the EU stops being a union of sovereign states. It becomes a centralized power structure where Berlin and Paris call the shots and everyone else falls in line. Remove unanimity, and you remove equality. At that point, the European Union ceases to be a partnership,i t becomes a hierarchy.
