Thursday, June 2, 2005
Arrogance still rife amongst EU policy makers |
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Check out this press release from UNICE, a lobby organization which claims to speak for European businesses, although MKB-Nederland, the Dutch SMB organization, is not a member:
'The “no” from the Netherlands after the French one is more than a setback; it is a strong signal that the European project is badly perceived by European citizens. European policy-makers must reflect carefully on how to move forward. Deferring structural reforms is not an option but they have to be better explained and well understood.'
(Emphases mine.)
Or, in English: 'You poor ignorant voters. We understand you must feel confused. Let us explain why we know what's best for you one more time...'
Perception is not the problem. Policy is.
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Half of me is delighted to see your massuhs in Brussels all upset. And for an American it sure is a pleasure to see our dear, dear, allies jacques and gerhardt with poop all over their faces. But.
Now you live there; I don't. So you tell me. Is there any chance that somebody, maybe in Paris, might have be having bad thoughts idea along these lines: To bring back the good old days when Europe dominated the world scene through a kind of Greater Eurabia? A Eurocrat elite commanding Muslim numbers and their oil? True, you'd have to open Europe wide to immigration, but maybe having native quarters right at hand, in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, etc, etc, might pleasantly remind certain people of their old colonial grandeur. And all that oil too! What a wonderful way to finance a social system so immeasurably superior to the one provided by the evil Anglo-Saxon free market.
Sold this way, might the referendums gone otherwise?
Just wondering what happens now.
Love your site. Keep on blogging.
ps (ip:209.220.229.254) 2 June 2005 - 18:01 uur
Well done! I suspect that the people understood only too well what their "leaders" were trying to do.
There have been many comparisons made between the EU and US constitutions, but the mistake is in thinking that the US constitution is the supreme embodiment of the nation. Far from it. Ultimate authority resides with the people. The constitution is meant only to delegate certain responsibilities which the people find inconvenient to carry out directly. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Mitch (ip:141.202.248.12) 2 June 2005 - 19:51 uur
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