Are the EU’s ‘values’ merely aspirations? And are there hidden values it doesn’t admit to? Some other views. Do we love or hate EU? PR = Profoundly Ridiculous? Article 2 of the EU treaties states: “The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and … More Shorties-19
The longest word in Parliament; a chain reaction; the UK outcast; boomerang bailouts; a bad design; a bad marriage; a superior, foreign court; whose law is it then?; weak economic foundations; why are EU?; an outdated ideology; to the Land’s End station; the impossible dream; apply the obvious. Floccinaucinihilipilification You may be interested to learn … More Quickies-4
Quotations from and comments on an article concerned that the EU may fail because of moral degeneracy evident in the Commission and other EU institutions. In an interesting opinion piece for the EUobserver (https://euobserver.com/opinion/143013 ) Franklin Dehousse, a former judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), compares the present track of the EU to … More Timely Judgement
This is a follow-up post to High and Mighty and provides in one place a collection of links to our previous posts on the theme of the EU’s often-displayed contempt for its citizens. Our previous post introduced a theme we have found ourselves repeating again and again: The EU consistently displays disdain for the opinions … More More High and Mighty
During the course of our blogging about the EU and the Brexit Referendum we have touched repeatedly on a number of themes. In this post we highlight the disdain in which the EU and its leaders hold the people and their nations. So great is the mission that it must not be impeded by citizens’ … More High and Mighty
Even reliably supportive journals get short shrift when they ask critical questions of the EU and its reliable lack of transparency. The leaders excuse themselves. EUobserver has challenged the European Parliament (EP) to publish, in the public interest, the documents prepared by an ad-hoc working group charged to propose options to reform the allocation of … More Expensives
Even among supporters of the EU, and it Ombudsman (a woman) the manner in which the appointment was made (see Revealing Appointment) has raised concerns. Of course these have had no effect. In February the European Commission appointed Martin Selmayr to the post of Secretary-General, effectively the head of the EU’s civil service. We posted … More Revealing Appointment-2
“…have lighted fools the way to dusty death.” If we are guided by intended outcomes rather than actual ones we are unlikely to follow the best path. We cannot know the future for sure but if we look at the past, the present, recent trends and current plans for the EU and our part in … More All our yesterdays…
In 1975 Australia’s Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, Australia’s de facto President. (although formally the Queen’s official representative, the Palace was clear that this was a sovereign issue, as indeed is the appointment of Governor-Generals in reality). The Australian government didn’t have enough Senate support to get its budget … More It’s the Wrong Way to Tackle Merkel
In almost opposite ways China and the EU demonstrate the need for political regimes to take some account of the ‘wishes of the people’. This is not to say that either is democratic but that unless the power of the people is carefully fragmented and weakened it may assert itself disruptively, eventually. China uses economic … More No Regime Change, Yet
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