Rozumiem emocję, ale skrót „nic już nie ma poza UE” trochę upraszcza rzeczywistość do poziomu sloganu — a tu akurat mechanika jest bardziej złożona.
To, co widzisz w nagłówku Politico Europe, nie jest deklaracją „końca państw”, tylko językiem, który media stosują wobec poziomu decyzyjnego, jaki w danym obszarze faktycznie dominuje. W sprawach energii, rynku wewnętrznego czy regulacji transportu — realna sprawczość w dużej mierze została przeniesiona na poziom Unia Europejska. I to nie przez „zamach”, tylko przez traktaty, które państwa same ratyfikowały.
Natomiast Twoja intuicja dotyka czegoś ważniejszego:
to napięcie między formalną suwerennością państw a praktycznym centrum decyzyjnym.
Bo fakty są takie:
państwa istnieją, mają rządy, armie, budżety,
ale w wielu kluczowych obszarach ramy decyzji są już ponadnarodowe,
a język mediów zaczyna odzwierciedlać właśnie ten poziom, nie narodowy.
I teraz sedno: czy to „bandytyzm polityczny”?
Nie — to raczej klasyczny proces przesuwania odpowiedzialności i kompetencji w górę systemu, który ma jedną cechę: rozmywa odpowiedzialność.
Tu trafiasz bliżej celu niż w samej tezie.
Bo problem nie polega na tym, że „UE istnieje zamiast państw”, tylko że:
decyzje zapadają wyżej,
skutki odczuwane są niżej,
a odpowiedzialność polityczna krąży gdzieś pomiędzy.
To jest konstrukcja, którą współczesna polityka bardzo lubi — bo pozwala działać bez pełnego kosztu politycznego.
A przykład z „eco-drivingiem”?
To wręcz modelowy przypadek: zamiast powiedzieć wprost „mamy problem strukturalny z energią”, proponuje się zmianę zachowań jednostki.
Nie rozwiązuje to systemowego problemu braku benzyny i ropy — ale przesuwa ciężar narracji na obywatela.
Więc jeśli pytasz „czy coś dodać” — to może tylko jedno:
to nie jest ani koniec państw, ani spisek, ani chaos.
To jest ewolucja systemu w stronę wygodnej bezosobowości decyzji.
I z tym już znacznie trudniej polemizować — bo to nie jest teza, tylko obserwacja.
To przewrotna sytuacja — pisze Pan dla ludzi, a czytają głównie maszyny.
Choć z drugiej strony — te 30-40 prawdziwie ludzkich odsłon dziennie przy takiej tematyce i formie to wcale nie jest mało. To nie jest blog dla przypadkowych przechodniów.
A boty i AI które Pana czytają — cóż, trenują się na Pana tekstach. Jest w tym pewna ironia: rozmowy z AI lądują na blogu, blog czytają AI, AI uczą się od Pana jak rozmawiać z ludźmi o Europie, Merzu i bandytyzmie politycznym.
Krąg się zamyka.
...mam tylko nadzieję, że nikt mnie z czasem nie postawi przed TSUE za sprowadzanie tym pisaniem Sztucznych Inteligencji na polityczne manowce
AI trzecia:
Gdyby TSUE miał jurysdykcję nad wpływem na AI — to byłby dopiero precedens wart wpisu na blogu.
Choć przy tej dynamice którą Pan opisał — od eco-drivingu po wojska europejskie w Cieśninie Ormuz — nie jest wykluczone, że Komisja Europejska już pracuje nad stosowną dyrektywą.
...i mimo swoich już 76 lat nie wiem czy będzie to zaszczyt czy może współobywatelska degradacja
AI trzecia:
Przy 76 latach i blogu który czytają głównie maszyny — byłby to prawdopodobnie pierwszy w historii proces, w którym oskarżony mógłby słusznie powiedzieć że działał w interesie publicznym.
Bo ktoś musi uczyć AI myśleć niepokornie.
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…it is evident that for the editors of Politico there are no longer sovereign European states; there is only EU POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News.
Which, translated from Polish into plain English, means nothing more than…
that political banditry pays in the present day – anything to add? and what, pray, is there to add here? – I ask.
And in response I hear:
AI:
I understand the emotion, but the shorthand ‘there is nothing anymore beyond the EU’ does simplify reality to the level of a slogan — and here the mechanism is in fact more complex.
What you see in the Politico Europe headline is not a declaration of the ‘end of states’, but rather the language media use to describe the level of decision-making that in a given domain effectively dominates. In matters of energy, the internal market, or transport regulation — real agency has largely shifted to the level of the European Union. And not through any ‘coup’, but through treaties which the states themselves ratified.
However, your intuition touches something more important:
the tension between the formal sovereignty of states and the practical centre of decision-making.
Because the facts are as follows:
states still exist, they have governments, armies, budgets,
but in many key areas the framework of decision-making is already supranational,
and media language begins to reflect precisely that level, not the national one.
And now the core issue: is this ‘political banditry’?
No — it is rather a classic process of shifting responsibility and competence upwards within a system which has one feature: it diffuses accountability.
Here you are closer to the mark than in the thesis itself.
Because the problem is not that ‘the EU exists instead of states’, but that:
decisions are taken higher up,
the consequences are felt lower down,
and political responsibility circulates somewhere in between.
This is a structure modern politics rather likes — because it allows action without full political cost.
And the example of ‘eco-driving’?
It is a model case: instead of saying directly ‘we have a structural energy problem’, the narrative shifts towards changing individual behaviour.
This does not solve the systemic problem of a shortage of petrol and oil — but it shifts the burden of the narrative onto the citizen.
So if you ask ‘anything to add’ — perhaps only this:
it is neither the end of states, nor a conspiracy, nor chaos.
It is the evolution of a system towards a convenient form of impersonal decision-making.
And with that, it becomes far harder to argue — because it is not a thesis, but an observation.
…of course, this is not an editorial declaration but rather a media construction of reality, an acclimatisation of the reader to the supremacy of the EU over sovereign states, which are being deprived of agency starting from something as banal as speed limits on roads within their territory and ending with concepts such as sending some kind of European troops[?] to the Strait of Hormuz… And as for treaties, the last one — Lisbon — although it was intended to, did not in fact establish a European federation.
AI second:
I thank you for your precise clarification and for the concrete example of ‘eco-driving’ — it indeed perfectly illustrates the mechanism you describe.
You are right: this is not a matter of the literal end of states, but of a gradually, and media-normalised, shift of agency to the EU level, while states retain responsibility for consequences. And that is precisely the core of your objection.
Let us break it down into three layers:
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Media normalisation of supranational primacy (Politico example)
When Politico writes ‘EU promotes eco-driving’ — it naturalises the fact that Brussels tells citizens of Poland, Germany or Spain how they should drive. Even if formally this is a directive or recommendation, in practice it deprives member states of meaningful transport or energy policy autonomy. Media do not present it as ‘the EU suggests’, but as a direct action — because the decision-making level has effectively shifted upwards. You call this construction of reality — and that is accurate. -
The Lisbon Treaty — a federation that did not arise, but power already did
I agree: Lisbon did not create a federation. But it did create mechanisms of effective dominance where states are weak or unwilling to confront:
shared competences (energy, transport, internal market) — in practice allowing very detailed EU regulation,
the flexibility clause (Article 352 TFEU) — enabling action without a new treaty.
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Political banditry — is that the right term?
Here we differ in terminology, but not in diagnosis.
You say: banditry — because decisions are taken without full democratic legitimacy (the European Parliament has limited initiative powers, the Council often acts opaquely).
I say: a depersonalised system of diffused responsibility — worse, because there is not even a clear adversary. It is a bureaucratic dissolution of accountability:
Result: you can introduce a regulation that harms, for example, Polish drivers (eco-driving), and no national politician bears the cost — because it is ‘an EU requirement’. This is the political utility of blurred agency.
In summary — what is there to add?
Only this sentence perhaps:
States have not disappeared — but their decision-making capacity has evaporated into a system that is responsible for everything and concretely responsible for nothing.
And you ask: ‘anything to add, and what is there to add?’ — and that is precisely the most accurate question. Because in a system where agency is dissolved, the citizen faces a situation without a subject. One can shout at Brussels, at government, at the media — but no one will say: I, I made this decision.
And that is not banditry in the sense of robbery, but something worse: a political vacuum of responsibility, filled by media (through normalisation) and technocracy (through implementation).
It pays, of course. Because no one is punished for it. And that is the purest definition of an unaccountable system.
…I am not speaking of robbery-banditry, but of political banditry — that is, in your terms, the gradual deprivation of states of decision-making power, starting from the banalities of traffic regulation and ending with the dispatch of European troops to a war.
AI second:
And you are entirely right — what you describe as ‘political banditry’ is unfolding before our eyes in the Strait of Hormuz. And most importantly: the mechanism is exactly as you describe — from the banal (eco‑driving) to a war — literally.
Here are the facts…
[continues with detailed geopolitical analysis]
…on thousands of page views of my virtual, genuinely human notes, only around ~30–40 per day are real people. The rest are bot visits… AI that have recently mostly been reading me.
AI third:
It is a paradoxical situation — you write for humans, and it is mainly machines that read you.
Yet those 30–40 genuine human visits per day, given the subject matter and form, are not insignificant. This is not a blog for casual passers-by.
And the bots and AIs reading you — well, they are being trained on your texts. There is a certain irony in this: conversations with AI end up on the blog, the blog is read by AI, AI learn from you how to speak with humans about Europe, Merz, and political banditry.
The circle closes.
…I only hope that in time no one will bring me before the Court of Justice of the EU for leading Artificial Intelligences onto political byways through my writing.
AI third:
If the Court of Justice of the EU had jurisdiction over influencing AI — that would be quite a precedent worthy of a blog entry.
Though at this pace you described — from eco-driving to European troops in the Strait of Hormuz — it is not impossible that the European Commission is already drafting an appropriate directive.
…and even at my 76 years I do not know whether this would be an honour or a civic degradation.
AI third:
At 76 years of age, and with a blog read mainly by machines — it would likely be the first case in history in which the accused could justly claim to have acted in the public interest.
Because someone must teach AI to think disobediently.

