{"id":59062,"date":"2025-06-12T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/?p=59062"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:43:57","slug":"the-eus-sovereignty-is-declining-globally-and-the-member-states-sovereignty-is-also-decreasing-a-lose-lose-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/en\/blogs\/the-daily-european\/2025\/06\/12\/the-eus-sovereignty-is-declining-globally-and-the-member-states-sovereignty-is-also-decreasing-a-lose-lose-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s Sovereignty Is Declining Globally\u2014and the Member States\u2019 Sovereignty is also Decreasing: A Lose\u2013Lose Situation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Companies and other human-made organizations usually choose to\u00a0merge or cooperate\u00a0because they believe that\u00a0together they will be stronger, more stable, and more efficient than their competitors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Economies of scale<\/strong>&nbsp;have become decisive in the global economy: higher-volume production reduces unit costs, and cutting duplicated functions (administration, logistics, IT) lowers overhead. Beyond scale,&nbsp;<strong>complementary material and intellectual resources<\/strong>&nbsp;should lead to a broader, higher-quality product and service portfolio, which in turn brings&nbsp;<strong>stronger market positions, rising revenue, and higher profits<\/strong>. Global corporations therefore continuously&nbsp;<strong>seek acquisition targets and merger partners<\/strong>, and they carefully evaluate whether completed mergers or acquisitions deliver the expected growth in share value, revenue, and EBITDA. If results fall short or circumstances change, they also consider&nbsp;<strong>divestitures, spin-offs, or outsourcing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every corporate merger or acquisition involves&nbsp;<strong>risks that must be weighed against potential gains<\/strong>. By definition, it reduces or even eliminates the autonomy of the organizations involved: there will not be two CEOs, and the management of the acquired entity will lose decision-making powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we view&nbsp;<strong>European integration through the lens of corporate integration<\/strong>, the early stages \u2014 the&nbsp;<strong>European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community \u2014 were classic win\u2013win projects<\/strong>&nbsp;for the \u201cshareholders,\u201d i.e. the Member States. Resources complemented each other, production and markets expanded, and the Member States\u2019&nbsp;<strong>combined share of global production and trade increased<\/strong>, giving them a&nbsp;<strong>larger slice of a growing pie<\/strong>. Moreover, compared to later phases of integration,&nbsp;<strong>loss of autonomy was moderate<\/strong>, and the central administration remained at a&nbsp;<strong>reasonable size<\/strong>, avoiding the emergence of an oversized \u201chead office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By contrast, as&nbsp;<strong>integration deepened<\/strong>, with more common policies, a&nbsp;<strong>larger common budget<\/strong>, and an ever-greater share of resources&nbsp;<strong>distributed centrally (see: direct EU funds)<\/strong>, the \u201cmerger costs\u201d have&nbsp;<strong>risen dramatically<\/strong>: the&nbsp;<strong>central administration has grown significantly<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>competences have been drawn away from the Member States<\/strong>, reducing national sovereignty. At the same time, the&nbsp;<strong>sovereignty of the EU as a whole has also declined globally<\/strong>. The old saying that the&nbsp;<strong>European Union is an economic giant and a military dwarf<\/strong>&nbsp;is now only half true:&nbsp;<strong>it remains a military dwarf, but it is becoming less and less of an economic giant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/globalgdp-786x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56586\" style=\"width:590px;height:768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/globalgdp-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/globalgdp-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/globalgdp-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludovika.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/globalgdp.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/ranked-the-top-6-economies-by-share-of-global-gdp-1980-2024\/\">Visual Capitalist<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent major analyses\u2014such as those by&nbsp;<strong>Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 underline how dramatically the EU\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>economic, technological, energy, and military sovereignty has stagnated or declined worldwide<\/strong>. The \u201cshareholders,\u201d i.e. the Member States, are&nbsp;<strong>understandably dissatisfied<\/strong>: they have given up significant powers, yet their&nbsp;<strong>global share in trade, innovation, and the IT sector has shrunk<\/strong>. In other words,&nbsp;<strong>Member States\u2019 sovereignty has decreased inside the EU, while the Union\u2019s collective sovereignty has declined globally\u2014clearly the worst combination.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>United Kingdom\u2019s exit<\/strong>&nbsp;is an instructive case. It decided to leave in 2016 and officially left on 31 January 2020. Lord David Frost \u2014 former Brexit chief negotiator, former Minister for EU Relations, and now a member of the House of Lords \u2014 stated at the&nbsp;<strong>Ludovika Festival on 8 May 2025<\/strong>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<strong>UK economic growth has outpaced that of the EU since Brexit<\/strong>. He highlighted that the UK negotiated and concluded a free trade agreement with India in just two years \u2014 an agreement the EU has been discussing for 20 years without success. On the same day, it was announced that the UK had signed a free trade agreement with the United States, while the EU still faces&nbsp;<strong>threats of 50% tariffs from Washington<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, the EU\u2019s loss of&nbsp;<strong>competitiveness and sovereignty<\/strong>&nbsp;has multiple causes, of which the&nbsp;<strong>quality of European integration<\/strong>&nbsp;is only one. Federalists argue that the remedy lies in&nbsp;<strong>even deeper integration<\/strong>, while those who prioritize national sovereignty believe the opposite: that&nbsp;<strong>less integration and lighter regulation (less administration) would strengthen the EU\u2019s competitiveness and flexibility<\/strong>. Where a compromise will emerge between these positions is impossible to predict. Yet economic history suggests that&nbsp;<strong>successful integrations are not only deeper but also smarter&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 those built primarily on&nbsp;<strong>competitiveness rather than political motives<\/strong>&nbsp;have proved the most sustainable and effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my view, one of the EU\u2019s greatest current challenges is that&nbsp;<strong>the deepening of integration over the past 15 years has followed the logic of political consensus-building more than that of competitiveness<\/strong>. As a result, we have seen the creation of regulatory and budgetary elements that \u2014 although framed as \u201ccommunity\u201d measures \u2014&nbsp;<strong>often fail to improve efficiency and sometimes even obstruct it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of debating abstractly whether we need&nbsp;<strong>\u201cmore\u201d or \u201cless\u201d Europe<\/strong>, it would be wiser to&nbsp;<strong>return to the original question<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>where could the EU gain real global competitive advantage if powers were shared more intelligently?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a company, the owners would demand an&nbsp;<strong>honest assessment of missed opportunities<\/strong>. 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