EU 'should expand beyond Europe' ...

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.

BBC article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7095657.stm

Odd how people seem to lose track of simple vocabulary..... European Union. Europe is a land mass typically defined as the area west of the Ural Mountains, north of the Caucausus, and west of the Bosporus, is it not? These three boundaries generally seperate Europe from Asia. And for Africa, that is quite simple, you have a sea in between the two.

How can they attempt to bend a geographical concept to the point where it loses its base meaning? Absolutely ludicrous.



http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2097

Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovksy has warned that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. When people who have worked on higher levels in the EU system note similarities as well, it is time people start taking this idea seriously.

In 2002 Louis Michel, the then Belgian minister of foreign affairs and today a member of the European Commission, told the Belgian parliament that the EU will eventually encompass North Africa and the Middle East as well as Europe. The MEDA programme, the principal financial instrument for the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, between 2000-2006 spent €5,350 million on its various programs, according to the EU’s official website. During the period 1995-1999, some 86% of the resources allocated to MEDA were channelled to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority.

From 2007, MEDA will be replaced by the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument, which over the period 2007 to 2013 is projected to spend €11 billion on, among other things, promoting cooperation between European and Arab countries in the sectors of energy and transport; in higher education and mobility of teachers, researchers and students; Multicultural dialogue through people-to-people contacts, including links with communities of immigrants living in EU countries as well as cooperation between civil societies, cultural institutions and exchanges of young people.[...]But we already are a playground for foreign powers, for Muslim nations in particular, who can dump their unsustainable population growth in our countries and harass the native population with near-impunity, and this is actively caused by the EU.[...]