EU in Crisis

Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph this morning offers a good summary of the ongoing disaster that is the EU. The column is linked here and concludes as follows:

So we may indeed be about to see an economic debacle of unprecedented proportions in the recent history of the developed world. We shall just have to steel ourselves for it. It may, though, have the legacy of ending the neo-sovietisation of our continent, and allowing a resurgence of democracy in Europe and among European peoples; which would prove, at last, that every cloud does indeed have a silver lining.

Britain's Constitutional Crisis WILL Spillover to the EU

What started as a simple matter of outrageous expense account fiddling is now growing to something far bigger, signs of which are beginning to appear.

Historians will most probably note that this is the beginning of the end of the corrupt EU.

The crux of the matter is really quite simple and increasingly widely known. It applies everywhere within the 27 EU member states, is simply explained and unavoidable.

Members of the national parliaments of the EU member states, mostly without referendums on the most recent federalist changes, have handed about three-quarters of their legislative and oversight responsibilities to an outside third party - namely the EU.

IN SPITE OF THIS WELL KNOWN FACT THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO RECEIVE THEIR PAY, PERKS AND PENSIONS AS IF THEY RETAINED FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT.

In boom economic periods this has gone unremarked. In a severe economic recession it is quite frankly unacceptable. With two weeks to go before the polling weekend for the clearly neutered, wasteful and largely detested European Parliament, voter's disgust will now most likely spread across the Continent like a plague.

As this blog earlier advised these elections should have been canceled as in this economic bust the cash strapped workers of Europe should not be committed to financing another five years of abuse by the MEP leeches.

Therefore while this started as a protest against a rotten expense system in the UK Parliament, the real affect will be to highlight how even reasonable and normal pay and pension conditions cannot be afforded for those only performing one quarter of their duties.

EU failure on Fisheries just the start.

The Sunday Times report, linked here, on the belated admission that the EU policy on fishing has been a complete failure and absolute disaster, made by the EU Commissioner responsible, should mark the beginning of similar admissions by every other EU Commissioner in every other area in which the EU operates and therefore, if we were completely honest, exploits.

If the leaders of the EU member states truly wished to start putting their peoples interests first, and never have the economics been more demanding of just that, then all EU activities would be halted with the end of the present Commission and Parliament and a period of respite from the never-ending onslaught of petty regulation and interference could help in bringing forward the moment when Europe's diverse economies could be put to rights.

The opening paragraphs of the Sunday Times article are as follows:

Europe’s fishing industry is on the brink of suicide and several species are in danger of extinction after 25 years of policy failure,the European Commission said yesterday.

Officials admitted five key failings in the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy as they prepared to tear up the idea of a centrally dictated strategy. They launched the search for an alternative, saying that much of the responsibility for fishing must be returned to EU member states.

EU Civilian Crisis Management

The fact sheet which outlines what you may soon be experiencing in your home town is linked here and states, inter alia,:

Police

The European Union aims to be capable of carrying out any police operation, from advisory, assistance and training tasks to substituting to local police forces. Member States have undertaken to provide up to 5000 police officers by 2003, of whom up to 1 400 can be deployed in under 30 days.

Civil administration

As regards civil administration, a pool of experts has been created, capable of accepting civil administration missions in the context of crisis-management operations, and if necessary, being deployed at very short notice.