Thursday, 26 June 2008

EU: How many humiliations?



















Ralf Grahn


  1. You are not co-joining individuals into the EU but nation states. In the process the EU destroying them as working democracies, as effective economic units and as cultural units capable and willing to defend themselves.

    If the EU allows the nation states to be independent, as they finally will be whatever attempts are made to Lisbonise, they will more effectively achieve your desired aims.

    They are capable of acting in alliance to meet threats, and will have more chnace of defeating threats with more capability.

    Yes the nation state is the platform of democracy, of culture, of defensive will and ability, and of economic growth.

  2. Tapestry,

    Actually, my ideal is to join individuals and for the EU to serve its citizens, with them choosing the officeholders and setting the course for the union.

    The EU is an additonal level of politics and future democratic governance.

    Given the diversity of Europe, I am not especially afraid of states, languages or cultures disappearing.

    If you study the present state of European military spending, you would find an enormous amount of duplication with forces geared towards territorial defence, while international capabilities are underdeveloped (in spite of almost six decades of NATO; admitted, much less in Central Europe).

    Your view of 'independence' still begs the question how you are going to tend to the common interests. Perhaps you don't even care?


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