German Barracks Barbie von der Leyen to lead EU commission

[Skybird]

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48847200

The German defence ministress Ursula von der Leyen, highly disliked in and mistrusted by the Bundeswehr and beign entangled in a series of scandals that in the end read "corruption" and "nepotism", the weakest in Merkel's current collection of minister muppets, gets disposed to the highest post in the EU - that already is a message in itself. She ha snbot achieved anything remarkable in any of her previous minsiter offices as well. In other words, she is a dud, and a walking permanent wave advert.

If this gets through the Eu parliamnet, which is not certain because it is again the return of the backroom deals done behind locked doors, this illustrate sin what a lousy state the EU really is.

And Lagarde, the French from Macronland and strongly supporting Macronman's state interventionism and centrlaist idea of how to run a state and poltics in the EU, should become boss of the ECB. This is not just hilarious anymore, this is simply fearsome.

Macron wins this round: he gets a French loyalist on one of the two top seats, and prevents the Germans getting a strong name on an yof the two who could challenge French ambitiuons for centralising the EU even more, and milking namely Germany but also the other net payers even more. For the greatness of France that lacks the econiomic power and wealth to finance its fame-craving by itself.

Farange already started his flanking entertainment program in the eU parliament today, I saw on TV. :D

The EU degenerates more and more into a hilarious, weak though dangerous, freak show. In other countries one take snote of this. But Germans once again sleep deep and happy.

Lets see what the EU parliament, this curio collection, does about all this.

Great Europeans of the past, great names in European culture of the past centuries - the rumble you maybe hear is their skeletons spinning in their graves.

Von der Leyen as head of the EU commission - much bigger a joke than I expected anything!

I also wonder who volunteers for the ejection seat in the defence ministry now.

Why is everybody afraid of the so-called "populists" in parliaments...? The state government chiefs and the bitter rivalries and personal fights in the parliament cause much, much more damage.

Sunday's and today's rounds score good for - China, Russia and the US. They must not do anythign to weaken their rival in Europe. He does that all by himself. Good for Europeans as well: it has become obvious for many more people that nobody needs this lunatics asylum. the past EU elecitosn for the first time since I think 20 years or more saw a stop of the notoriously declining voter participation - and the heads of government already managed to ruin and waste that drive again and desillusionising people again. Next time, the "populist threat" will not do the trick again.

P.S. Should the EU parliament wave through von der Leyen, the German troop and the Bundeswehr leadership will open champagne bottles in celebration - that they finally got rid of her. Probably only zu Guttenberg was as bad - if not even worse so - as she was in that office.

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And Lagarde, the French from Macronland and strongly supporting Macronman's state interventionism and centrlaist idea of how to run a state and poltics in the EU, should become boss of the ECB. This is not just hilarious anymore, this is simply fearsome.

CONVICTED CRIMINAL LET OFF THE HOOK. :nope:

[Jimbuna]

Merkel and Macron each get a position filled by someone they favour. Hardly surprising in this day and age.

[Skybird]

Ah, no Jim, you probably are not correct there.

Originally Merkel wanted Weidmann as head for the ECB. Macron did not want that, so did several southern states that feared Weidmann's anti-Draghi positions and opposition to quantitive easing policy, and Weidmann's sympathy for raising interest rates and fight against endless inflation and debt-raising policies. Macron/France however want stronger state interventionism, stronger centralsim and rule by the self-declared "elite" (Führerprinzip), and a subjugation of ECB-fiscal policy under political command, means: under Paris'S command. France wants a collectivisation of national debts and an endless raising of debt limits. Note, the French did not agree to German reunification until Kohl accepted the early and premature introduction of the Euro and the end of the D-Mark, which Mitterand called the German atom bomb. Macron instead wanted sombody close to France'S centralist, state-socialist views, and Lagarde has in recent past turned towards Macron'S views on fiscal policies and wants stronger punishment/plundering of private savers. All that is according to France's taste - and against traditional positions of the German Bundesbank. Weidmann prevented, Lagarde in: 1:0 for France.

When it became evident in past 12-18 months that Weidmann would not make it to the ECB top seat, Merkel opportunistically shifted towards a position of "Then at least head of EU commission for germany". Weber was not her ideal candidate however, since he is also critical to some of the wishy-washy opportunistic approaches of Merkel. Merkel, who is not shy to sell out German key interests if only it helps her to keep herself in power and her influence to secure that intact. Thats why Weber was brought up by her, but why she also was very weak in support for him, and did not much to support him - something that the CSU in Germany and the conservative party in the EU parliament now are quite angry about. In the end, Merkel now is a lame duck, and the summita, already the G20 meeting, has shown how weak and free of infleunce she aleady is internationally. France on the other hand wanted to prevent Weber as well, like it wanted to prevent Weidmann for the ECB. Assuming they could not get both top seats for France'S side, at least they could also prevent Weber. And thats what Macorn did, being quite inviting to risk conflict with germany, because Merkel in macron'S early time as president sometimes lectured him and dominated him like a little school boy - for which he now has taken revenge. Merkel was comoletelys surprised by the aggressiveness and brutal cionflict-readiness of Macron over these EU issues, she was unprepared for that. Instead, to solve the impasse, France brought up the name of van der Leyen, who is the weakest name in Merkel'S cabinet, and his highly disputed and disliked in Germany, and deeply embedded in scandal, nepotism claims and claims of incompetence. Also mind you, to secure the great coalition Merkel has given all key ressorts in her canbinet to the socialists form the SPF - who had scored a soundign defeat in last generla elecitons and by Merkel were turned into the biug winner of these elections this way. Von der Leyen as defence ministress was a joke. Macron knows van der Leyen is weak, and his calculation is that he will find it easy to influence such a weak figure in his interest. The Eastern European states also calculate on van der Leyen's toothlessness, thats why she is acceptabpe for them as well. Which means they will clash with France' allience more or less directly. For Merkel, Leyen is not even second choice - she is the last name on her list with the reserve team names. France 2:0 Leyen was not Merkel's idea - Macron has brought her up.

German goals: none.

The SPD is in arms, some names demand an end of the coalition and that von der Leyen must be prevented. She is just another of these unbearably incompetent, politically super correct feminist quota females.

In Moscow, Bejing and Washington they must celebrate it with champagne if van der Leyen makes it. The EU would have made a total and complete joke of it once again, the internal conflicts are pre-programmed and will weaken the block further.

Its a huge French victory, and a most substantial defeat of Merkel on all fronts. She now just poses as a victor or better: as a "team player". But fact is that the french have played, fouled and bullied her against the wall - and that she is to weak already as if she could resist to it any longer. The Merkel era is over. I said that already after the last general elections over here.

Maybe the govenrment breaks down over here, and maybe the EU parliament rejects this mess. Not as if the parliament has left a better impression in recent days.

All participants have done their best to ruin the credit given to them by the people in last EU elections - the first elections since over 24 years that had seen a small raise in voting turnout. But the centralism and backroom deals of the Eu are back in strength, and the parliament does its best to cannibalise itself.

I know why I put not the smallest faith in the ability of the EU to reform itself. Thats like expecting a shark to turn vegetarian. Because no matter how the EU rules and methods get rewritten: its still the same kind of porked characters seizing its seats and offices, and this breed will ruin it always, always, always, no matter the rules and intentions of the institutional design. You cannot work around the kind of people the EU attracts, and the kind of people it attracts are a problem that will always corrupt it all.

[ikalugin]

I mean it cant go any worse for Bundeswehr.

[Skybird]

Well, you can still break the few things that still work, sometimes.



:O:

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

When I first read the list of new EU leaders, it felt like April Fools' Day. I have no problem with Catalan as High Representative (nice domestic politics trick from Pedro Sanchez) nor Italian socialst as chairman of the European Parliament and I think that Belgium's prime minister might be optimal choice to lead the European Council.



I'm not so comfortable with Barracks Barbie leading the Commission after seeing in what shape the Bundeswehr is these days (insufficient numbers of flyable fighters, at times zero functioning submarines, destroyer sized, overweight, persistently listing "warships" which are armed like offshore patrol vessels...) and I strongly oppose appointment of politician like Lagarde into the ECB although I got to admit that her political skills maybe advantage in getting things done (if she is smart enough to listen professional advice). Gotta hope von der Leyten is better in EU politics than dfence stuff.

[Skybird]

v.d. Leyaen was labour ministress, and prudced just blabla. And was fmaily and socvial issues mnnistress, and the blabla was even worse. She works since ,longer time silenbtly on fleeing from the dfenc emnbistry, she has entangle dherself in too many issues, scqandals and displays of her incompetence, also the army and the officer corps strongly despise her. In other words: her "career" is at her biographically lowets point, and she has no cups and medals to show up with. And then her always politically ultracorrect empty phrase-shelling. Hair-raising.

Lagarde is without real understanding of the nature of money , she is lawyer in the first, politician, not economist or finance expert. She is Keynesian not becasue of choice of theory, but becasue her background as a law-expert and diplotaiclaly acting semi-politician mad eher that as a side effect. She will kick quantitive easing to new lows to keep the party going. I doubt she has a real understanding for the underlying critical implication that will sooner or later let the kettle explode. In other words: she is worse than Draghi. Markets already have reacted to her name although she is not even yet confirmed in office.

And she is French. French like Macronfrench. She suppoirts state itnevnewtionism and that eocvnomy and finace must be subordnate to pltlical policy-mforming, in other words: she indirectly supports planned economy schemes.

Both Lagarde and von der Leyen are two of the worst choices one could have made for these posts. The one will play France's game, the other can be made to play France's game. The southern coalition of net receiving states now must and hopefully will clash frontally into the group of the Northern net-paying states and the Visegrad states and the socalled "populists" (though he worst populists I know in all this are the pro-EU propagandists themselves, both quantity and quality, and volume, of their slogans are hard to top, and they control the state media anyway). That is good in itself, for it weakens the EU even more and pushes it even more to the brink of self-erasing. Frances finances are the biggest money bomb in the Eurozone, thats why Macron wages war against private savings and private property oweners in other countries. With Lagarde, he got his girl into the ECB' HQ.

[Skybird]

Thats why Lagarde is such a threatening nemesis. Her time at the IMF shows where the voyage is going for the ECB.


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