Sun Blogs: Bird's Eye View
United In Disarray
March 2, 2009 - 10:20pmStorm clouds are gathered over Brussels: the economic and political crisis that grips the countries of the European Union is highlighting the weaknesses of the EU. Among those weaknesses, the inability of the organization to create common political policy is especially apparent. Though European leaders are hailing a “consensus” that they reached at their emergency summit, the economies of Europe, especially those of Central and Eastern Europe, are falling closer and closer to collapse.
Instead of acting as one Europe, national divisions remain strong. The strong economies of Europe look to circle the wagons, and begrudge any attempt to bring in their weaker neighbors. France is working to protect its car industry and workers in spite of the criticism that it is receiving from other EU members while Germany refuses special aid to Central and Eastern European members. While not necessarily pleasing for German voters, aid to these economics is especially important because though they are integrated into the European market and bound by the bloc’s restrictions, they do not use the Euro and have to contend with high exchange rates. Although all economies in Europe face deep challenges, those outside the Eurozone have this special difficulty. Hungary’s Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, said it best with “We should not allow that a new Iron Curtain should be set up and divide Europe.”
What is the future for Europe? Political unification was stalled with the failure of the European Constitutional Treaty, while the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty halted the attempt to repackage the Constitution in a less monolithic form. Though Europeans talk of unity and consensus, it seems that beyond words there is little. Today there is not one nation of Europeans, instead there are only French, Germans, Italians, and others, with each concerned for himself rather than for the good of the whole. It took the economic crisis to make the world understand these divisions for what they are, a threat to the very existence of a politically unified Europe.
EU Propaganda united in dissarray
The eu consists of 27 unelected commissioners, the rest is just very expensive window dressing. The unelected commissioners are generally failed politicians, and it shows with all the mistakes they make. They are the ones who will gain most from the massive power grab that is the democratically rejected constitution/lisbon treaty.
The UK was dumped into the common market, in the 70's by Ted Heath, the common market had evolved from the Iron and Steel agreement set up by the USA after WW2 to help prevent the westward flood of communism. We have never been given any choice regarding the politicisation of the eussr.
Currently the eu is a failing governmental entity being the most corruption ridden and democratically deficient level of government in the entire world.
The constitution, which deliberately disenfranchises the ordinary citizens of 27 previously free nations, was rejected by 2 countries, the answer was to rewrite it, only making it harder to understand, and easier to misinterpret, then the two countries who had rejected it ratified it without any form of mandate from their peoples. The UK had been promised a referrendum, but Brown lied that the lisbon treaty wasn't the constitution and denied us a vote, and ratified it.
Currently reporters are claiming that only 2 nations haven't ratified it, in fact the Czech republic, Poland, Germany, and of course Ireland the only country which has asked for a mandate from its people, who soundly rejected it, haven't ratified the treaty. This lead to the desperate, and illegal attempts by barosso the unelected president of europe, and Merkel the elected President of Germany descending on Dublin to demand that the Government ignore its people and ratify the constitution, threatening dire consequences if they didn't oblige.
The reason that the eussr is failing is that it is the most corruption ridden democratically deficient government in the world, its elected MEP's have no power despite costing the tax payers £1million a year each, elected nation governments have no power to decide on what is good for their own citizens, and for some reason the USA supports this despicable body, whose lowest common denominator, one size fits all, fits no one, over regulation and legislation, will Ultimately lead to massive civil unrest on the continent of europe. The USA should stop treating the eussr as a single country it isn't, never has been ,and like the USSR which it is replacing, never will be.
The people of Europe signed
The people of Europe signed up for a free trade zone and instead they got a bunch of fantasists who want a United States of Europe. The political class in Europe bitterly resents the fact that their influence in the world ended in 1945, and what values they developed are now carried forward by the USA. (A very uncivilized place, don't you know, where commoners have entirely too much influence on culture and economic life. They even let them buy guns!)
I'm not too happy about bailing out these California idiots who gave $500,000 mortgage loans to self-employed house painters. I don't blame German taxpayers one bit if they want THEIR government to tell Hungary to get lost.