European Union
Globalization
The European Union (EU) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.
The EU operates through a system of supranational institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states.
The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, liberty,
democracy,
equality, the
rule of law and respect for human rights,
including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values, which are set out in Article I-2, are common to the Member States.
Moreover, the societies of the Member States are characterised by pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice,
solidarity and equality between women and men.
All these principles have been violated by the European
power elite who place themselves
above the law...
Globalization
France and England will never be powers comparable to the
United States and the Soviet Union. Nor Germany either.
There remains to them only one way of playing a decisive role in the world; that is to unite to make Europe. ...
We have no time to waste: Europe will be your revenge.
The primary political motive for increased European integration [is] to enhance Europe's role in world affairs.
The two principal forces, economic gain and political security, have been behind enlargements.
Konrad Adenauer was one of the architects who
paved the way for the globalization project called the European Union. The EU is a major
globalization project of the European
power elite by which they
rule their self-created superstate including the nations and all the people in them. The
European Parliament in Strasbourg represents the renewed
Tower of Babel as is obvious with their symbolism.
Tax haven empire
If you want to avoid paying taxes and have no problem with dicey business practices, Europe has a lot to offer.
We all know that the finance sector is addicted to offshore...
Europe's power elite have installed an extensive
tax haven network.
Jean-Claude Juncker is the president of the European Commission.
Politicians in Brussels have maneuvered to save him from the scandal, but the case has cast light on Europe's tax-dumping problem.
Luxembourg ... multi-billion dollar tax secrets of some of the world’s largest multinational corporations.
As minister of finance Juncker turned Luxembourg into Europe's leading tax haven.
He was involved in the so-called Luxembourg Leaks and the
Juncker spy scandal.
The European power elite elected Juncker as president of the European Commission.
After being exposed to have lied he said
"when it becomes serious, you have to lie."
Before the French referendum on the EU constitution in 2005 he said
"if it's a yes, we will say, 'On we go', and if it's a no, we will say, 'We continue'."
A professional liar like Juncker in such an important position says a great deal about the EU.
Economic inequality
Tax havens in countries such as Luxembourg are zapping billions of euros
from the coffers of developing countries...
In 2012, close to 125 million people - almost a quarter of the population in the EU - were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (see STAT/13/184).
Almost 50 million are suffering severe material deprivation.
The number of children living in relative poverty is increasing across all Member States in the WHO European Region.
While the rich get richer
economic inequality keeps rising and that is mainly due to top level
corruption.
Taking away sovereignty
The EU has shown that states can come together and form a collective, in terms of sharing laws, currency, security, and other areas that
are usually under the control of a singular nation state. Consequently, the traditional view of sovereignty has especially been challenged in recent years.
Since the EU is made of different member states, in order for the EU to have
power and sovereignty, the member states have given up much of their sovereign power.
Last year's referendums on their Accession Treaties were travesties of
democracy. Public funding, the
mass media and the referendum rules were
grotesquely unbalanced in favour of EU accession.
The EU Commission, ever anxious to increase its own power,
interfered massively in favour of the Yes-side - almost certainly
in breach of EU law, which gives the Commission no competence in treaty ratification.
The democratic deficit is a lack of legitimacy in that
EU decisions are not sufficiently responsive to public preferences and scrutiny. This gap between elite opinion and public opinion on
European integration has also been established in more empirical terms showing differences in the areas in which
political elites and European publics are willing to confer
power to the EU.
Corruption
It has been estimated that the EU costs us around £1,000 billion a year - an incredible £2000 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So what do we get for our money?
Corruption remains a major problem in the countries of the
European Union and levels are thought to have risen over the last three years.
Corruption is a disease that destroys a country from within, undermining trust in
democratic institutions, weakening the accountability of political leadership and playing
into the hands of organised crime groups. Corruption can only be tackled successfully through the will and commitment of leaders and decision-makers at all levels.
The EU is a bureaucracy whose leaders are not
democratically elected by EU citizens, but they are appointed by the EU
power elite themselves. This is
cronyism.
The EU power elite make laws and regulations for member states without the consent of the people who are simply forced to abide.
The EU is in essence undemocratic. The question is not whether the EU is corrupt, but how corrupt.
Of course anybody who thinks that corrupt people are going to tackle corruption is an idiot.
The EU is a leading tax haven in this world. It has growing
economic inequality. Its power elite
take away sovereignty from its member states. The facts speak for themselves.
Links...
Alexander Stephan - The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945
Marta Andreasen - Brussels Laid Bare
Watson Institute - The Failure of the Euro?
Corporate Watch - False Dilemmas: A Critical Guide to the Euro Zone Crisis
Economist - The man who screwed an entire country
Telegraph - Nicolas Sarkozy 'received £42 million from Muammar Gaddafi for 2007 election'
Commentator - Bad leadership at the root of europe's worst peacetime crisis
Roy Davies: A Collection of Links on politics and political corruption in relation to financial scandals
European Parliament - Carmen Galiana: Trafficking in women
Politics - EU budget fraud
BBC - Analysis: How corrupt is Europe?
Newsweek - Juncker Unlikely to be Unseated Despite 'Tax Haven' Scandal
Marta Andreasen - Brussels Laid Bare
Watson Institute - The Failure of the Euro?
Corporate Watch - False Dilemmas: A Critical Guide to the Euro Zone Crisis
Economist - The man who screwed an entire country
Telegraph - Nicolas Sarkozy 'received £42 million from Muammar Gaddafi for 2007 election'
Commentator - Bad leadership at the root of europe's worst peacetime crisis
Roy Davies: A Collection of Links on politics and political corruption in relation to financial scandals
European Parliament - Carmen Galiana: Trafficking in women
Politics - EU budget fraud
BBC - Analysis: How corrupt is Europe?
Newsweek - Juncker Unlikely to be Unseated Despite 'Tax Haven' Scandal