In the UK there is outrage about lobbying on behalf of private enterprises by ex-prime ministers and top civil servants, Parliament has demanded an investigation and expects to see changes made. Meanwhile MEPs in Brussels have taken a different approach to their own activities.* Quotations are from EUObserver: 16 April 2021 [1] Headline: MEPs reject … More More on Lobbying and Corruption
In this post we come up to date and contrast the ideal version of itself that the EU presents to its supporters, and to the world at large, with the performance of the EU in its practices. (Quotations are in red.) [1] Speculating simply, the EU may be popular because of the goals and values … More Goals and Values
The EU has drawn together all the relevant bits and pieces that have emerged over the years to define its legal authority into a single document. Because the few citizens who were given a choice rejected the idea of a Constitution, a long-winded fudge, called “Consolidated Versions of the Treaty on European Union and the … More What About the Treaties?
Our last post looked at how the Lisbon Treaty represented a constitution in disguise, sneakily introduced because voters who were asked didn’t want one and others weren’t asked in case they too rejected it. The plan was agreed by the EU Council during its meeting at Laeken in 2001 and they would not be defied. … More The Laeken Declaration
We’ve referred occasionally to the draft European Constitution. In this post we look a little more closely at its formation and its conversion into the Lisbon Treaty after the draft was rejected in referendums in France and The Netherlands in 2005. The full text of the draft Constitution can be downloaded [1]. Here is the … More Constitutional Deception
Merkel’s and Macron’s undermining of the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine may derive from their instinctive reactions to any hint that Britain’s future after Brexit might be fruitful, but they are reckless and are damaging enthusiasm for the EU. Whilst infections, hospitalisations and deaths in the UK are plunging, in Germany the vast majority of the Oxford-AstraZeneca … More Sputnik launched in the EU
There is little to doubt that European unity was inspired by the desire for peace after two devastating world wars. With the founding of the European Union this great and noble cause has been obscured and diverted down a different path. In 1949, the Council of Europe (CoE) was formed to create conditions for peaceful … More Paved With Good Intentions
The EU is not what it would seem to be. The Lisbon Treaty The Lisbon Treaty, which came into force on 1st December 2009, declares that the European Union is based on common principles of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. To ensure all this … More Fantasy Land
Von de Leyen is a terrorist. She may not plant bombs but she primes the fuses. There are two sides to the conflict in Ireland, the EU has ‘weaponised’ it for its own advantages, disregarding the risk to lives. The (hastily withdrawn) intention to create a hard border between north and south by invoking Article … More EU Priming Terror
“Our friends in Europe”, as the Prime Minister graciously calls them (and by which he means in the EU) are hostiles, not friends. This has been clear to most of us for some years but became transparently so during the vaccine fiasco. The EU’s spite is potentially murderous; not only did its Commission threaten a … More Our Friends in Europe
