
Originally Posted by
Jovan Dragisic
The Green Deal is a set of legislation, some parts of which are supposed to instruct member states on what kind of legislation to pass, but most of it has to do with the budget and “investment” subsidies funded by the budget. The subsidy mechanism is super arcane and complicated, but I will give you a rough summary.
According to EU legislation, government subsidy of private business is forbidden, other than through EU wide funds, called structural and investment funds. The Commission legislates it’s own thing (like the Green Deal), then individual member states have to write up their own programs depending on the type of fund and have them approved by the Commission, then they implement the programs and the Commission pretends to oversee everything. Each member state is allocated a certain amount per program per capital key. There is no getting in and out per se, because everything is legislated in the core documents, like the EU contract and stuff. You sign up for the whole thing by being a member state. You could theoretically not use the subsidy mechanism, but then the oligarchs in your country would not be able to rob the public as well as they are with the mechanism.
Is this any clearer now? You will not get anywhere in understanding this by reading American right wingers, they simply have no idea the level of corruption we are dealing with here, so they abstract everything into buzzwords.