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Originally Posted by Hawk66
Sorry, but I really cannot understand this EU bashing...is this a kind of sports here ? Is this a dislike of big organizations?
I also agree that without NATO there would no be free Europe today and it is a shame that a some of my countrymen have already forgotten that.
But the EU played a vital role in the unification of commerce, economics and non-security politics.
What do you expect when more than 20 countries have to find compromises, whose political leaders follow (and have to follow) national interests?
What is the alternative? Europe before WWII ? And no we cannot copy the model of this nice, lovely Switzerland; because this model does not scale!
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It begins with that the EU is not Europe and that Europe is not the EU.
And that "Europe" always means an implicit plural. A single "European identity" never existed in the meaning of singular.
The EU is the antithesis to what you - and me - probably wishes Europe to be. And it matches formidable parallels to the power system and hierarchy structure of the former Soviet Union. Like the Federal republic of Germany today has more similiarities with the GDR than anyone can feel comfortable with.
We have a joke over here in Germany: that Merkel is Honnecker's late revenge at the "BRD" (=Bundesrepublik Deutschland=Westgermany).
I am for Europe. Thats why I am
necessarily against the EU.
BTW, economic cooperation we already had with the EEC, the unification of commerce is a disaster that cripples member states more and more, and the unification of non-security policies is nsom,ethgignthey can shove deep inside their lower bottoms and serves as a foul excuse for sticking their impertinent noses deep and deeper into things that they must not be interested in and that they nevertheless want to control in the nbame of control and in order to destroy ethnic and cultural diversities of European cultures. What the EU does in this regard, in principle is not different to the ambitions of Stalinistic Russia, and Yugoslavia, or the Danube monarchy. All failed in the end, all entities fell apart in violence. It will not be different with this monster EU, I think.
The bad thing is it will be violent. The good thing is it will happen nevertheless. Force together diverse things of too great differences, and you sow the seed of future conflict. The EU - to me is a self-fullfilling prophecy. It will create right the drama that it - wrongly - claims to prevent.