EU Van Rompuy

EU PRESIDENT FINALLY SHOWS HIS HAND: THE BEGLIANIZATION OF EUROPE IS THE FUTURE…….

This weasel typifies the low level of honesty and openness one can hope to find within the EU organization. It pains the Tundra Tabloids to note that here in Finland, years before it joined the EU, the political debate around openness in government, ending the “sauna culture” in parliament in which political deals were made in unofficial meetings, especially since no woman could have been present.
The TT believes however, that if women were included in these unofficial meetings there wouldn’t have been much of a squawk about them, but the TT digresses. No one today in Finland would want to go back to the way politicians of old, did their wheeling and dealing behind closed doors without any openness and accountablity, but oddly, since it happens in Brussels…it’s somehow ok. Depressing. KGS
H/T Tanguy Veys


Van Rompuy: more dangerous than he looks

Shabby and secret dealings between member states last year made Herman Van Rompuy president of the European Council. At the time, he was mocked in Britain largely because he was unknown, mouse-like and, well, Belgian.

But last night in Berlin, Van Rompuy showed what he really is. And that is, a dangerous, cynical man who intends that all of Europe should be turned into a vast version of Belgium, an invented country called Europe where the loyal feelings and patriotism of the ancient nations are suppressed — all replaced with a European nationalism.

Last night Van Rompuy gave a speech in which he condemned ‘the danger of a new Euro-scepticism. This is no longer the monopoly of a few countries. In every member state, there are people who believe their country can survive alone in the globalised world. It is more than an illusion. It is a lie!’ [Note, I can’t think of any state in the world outside Burma and North Korea that imagines it can survive alone. What Van R is attacking is any country and any people who imagine they are equipped to run their own state without an undemocratic superstate being in control. Damn shocking, those Swiss.]

‘The biggest enemy of Europe today is fear. Fear leads to egoism, egoism leads to nationalism and nationalism leads to war.’

‘Today’s nationalism is often not a positive feeling of pride in one’s own identity, but a negative feeling of apprehension of others.’

Tripe. And I have to call it tripe, because in Brussels, ‘nationalism’ is not nationalism as we understand it. The word is used instead to mean any expression of rational self-interest by one country. It is used to mean any preference by any citizen for their own homeland or culture or political system over others.

Remember, the European Commission is the institution in which its employees are trained never to mention their own home countries if the word can possible be avoided — British eurocrats are trained not to say Britain but to say only ‘the country I know best.’ This is why the EU has rigged up the idea of dividing Europe into ‘regions’ which ignore, indeed, erase, national boundaries. This is why, under law, we are all called ‘citizens of the EU’ now. It’s not just a gesture, it’s a fact, and cynical creatures such as Van Rompuy means we should all become ‘citizens of the EU’ in every sense.

WE can’t say we weren’t warned. The day after Van Rompuy was appointed, Paul Belien, a Flemish historian and lawyer, warned readers of the Mail that the newly powerful president of the council was a man ‘devoid of patriotism and contemptuous of democracy.’

Belien has known and observed Van Rompuy since the mid-1980s. He called Van Rompuy ‘a shrewd manipulator, he will do all in his power to further EU integration.’

‘Van Rompuy is a product of the debased, corrupt political life of Belgium. Like the EU, it is an artificial construction, the result of political compromise and experiment.’

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4 Responses

  1. I remember when the EC, and the euro came parading out of the darkness. Even then, as an American, I thought this is a bad idea. Fast forward 30, 40 years, and yes, it was a bad idea. I wondered about the loss of identity. Even in the US, in the 70s when I first saw an obviously African woman, Muslim, draped in the bodybag, at least 3 children by her side and in her buggy, I thought this is a bad idea. Assimilation was impossible and it would be costly to the state and to you and to me.

  2. The Socialist States of EUrabia united under Islam and Herman van Rompuy:

    Now he wants to "integrate the Balkan states" which will prevent civil wars in the future….

    This guy is indeed a very dangerous lunatic…..

  3. Thanks John, too bad either side of aisle in Washington doesn't get what you just wrote. They've been pushing more Brussels upon the backs of Europeans for some time now. It happens to be the worst form of representative government in the West, yet the US gives it a glowing stamp of approval.

    Yikes!

    Sheik, thanks a lot, I check it out, Paul Belien, who I know personally, has written a magnificent book about Brussels, and this Van Rompuy is the poster child for it.

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