A Broken EU - Why are our "leaders" not leading?

in #eu7 years ago (edited)

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The EU is broken.

Okay, let me start with one statement first; I'm a firm believer in a European (Economic) Community. The way the EEC was originally formed, with focus on working together to improve all economies part of the EEC.
I do NOT believe in what the EEC has become, the EU. With too many layers, costs and ego's ruling most countries.

The EU is an institution that is costing us loads of money, takes away rights of the individual people or countries and has no real benefits, when you compare it to the EEC.
They will claim because of the EU we have had no wars in Europe since WWII, but that is not true. It was because of the EEC that we have had no wars.
The EU will try to assimilate everyone to adhere to one set of rules. Being Dutch, I have a different way of living and different views than a German, Frenchman or Spaniard. Hell, I'm from Rotterdam, I don't even see eye to eye with someone from Amsterdam ;-)

Rules and regulations are imposed from Brussels (or Strassbourg, which is the biggest travesty still), and local governments and laws have to bow down to them.
Not only do we get rules imposed upon us, the EU also has a tendency to add countries even though any sane person knows these countries are not ready and probably never will. Or they open the borders with treaties no-one really wants.

Our so-called leaders blatantly ignore the wishes of the people and for some reason the people decided to re-elect these same men and women?

In the Netherlands we had a few instances of our "leaders" very publicly ignoring the people; in 2005 a referendum regarding the treaty for the constitution of the EU, where 61,5% of the voters were against this treaty. After some minore adjustments to the treaty, it was pushed through, disregarding the resounding NO the Dutch people shouted.
Another, more recent, referendum, about a treaty with the Ukraine, also got a resounding NO. And again, after a long time, the Dutch government decided to accept the treaty, BUT they added a useless addendum to the treaty which the Ukraine did not even need to agree upon.
In Germany the government decided to open the borders to all refugees, despite the protests of the people.
The EU itself had no adequate response to the "refugee" problem.

And now we see the G20 taking place, talking about more globalization, giving away more of our freedom to companies and institutions.

Although I'm not a big fan of Donald Trump, I see him as the only one still able to slow down these changes being forced upon the people.

I call upon all leaders in Europe to finally get their heads out of their asses.

  • Stop expanding the power of the EU, start making your own decisions.
  • Have a normal conversation with Britain about the Brexit, stop acting all tough and making the situation worse.
  • Start conversations with Russia at a normal level.
  • Shutdown Strassbourg, this traveling circus is only for the French.
  • Do something about the exorbitant pay in wages and "travel expenses"
  • Check every law/rule with the laws/rules in your own country. If they don't match, con't accept them. If you feel you have to accept them, then go through the normal process in your country to change your own law/rule.
  • Give the EU a fixed budget and make them work with that. Stop increasing constantly when asked.
  • There should be a law that government officials, especially ministers, working in a country cannot switch to working for the EU or any of the lobby groups.

If we do not stand up and make it very clear to our leaders that we do not accept this any more and force them to act according to our will, I fear in a few years time we will see a situation where a civil revolt can very well begin.

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I agree with you that the EU has major flaws as it stands today. Still I think the EU is the way to go, especially for smaller countries like Austria (where I live, greetings to Rotterdam!). The fact that the EU added many countries that aren't anywhere near the economic, social and political standard a lot of the founding countries expected just propelled that development in my opinion. Let's see what the future brings - hopefully a reformed Union of strong nations.

I agree that the smaller countries may have benefited from joining the EU, however it has held the other countries back.
If we go back to a Economic community I feel we can create a strong EU, without the flaws we have today.

Seeing what the future brings will cause pain, the EU has proven that it has no tendency to change itself, except for gaining more power.

Until people understand that we are living in a representative republic and not a democracy and the differences between the two, then I wouldn't mind starting a civil war today the problem when you start a civil revolution you better not turn everything to dust by not having a clear goal for that revolution, we meed to organise teach everyone what are central banks where money comes from what is a democravy what is blockchain or decentralisation.
Or else all we will achieve is replacing a puppet with another.
So lets educate the citizens so we can finnaly grasp the power they hoarded, and remove it giving humanity what it needs, education, for information is the only valuable thing, and we have been blind.




I agree with you, it all starts with educating the people. You do see now that the MSM, helped by the governments, have all gone in the same direction. I hope that newer generations will see through the lies and miscommunication that is spewed upon us every day.

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