Posted on 01/12/2014 10:02:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
A campaign for the European Union to become a “United States of Europe” will be the “best weapon against the Euroskeptics”, one of Brussels’ most senior officials has said.
Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission and the longest serving Brussels commissioner, has called for “a true political union” to be put on the agenda for EU elections this spring. “We need to build a United States of Europe with the Commission as government and two chambers—the European Parliament and a ‘Senate’ of Member States,” she said.
Mrs. Reding’s vision, which is shared by many in the European institutions, would transform the EU into superstate, relegating national governments and parliaments to a minor political role equivalent to that played by local councils in Britain. Under her plan, the commission would have supremacy over governments, and MEPs in the European Parliament would supersede the sovereignty of MPs in the House of Commons. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said that Mrs. Reding had revealed the true choice for British voters to make at polling stations. “For people in power in Brussels, that is the only choice on offer: no reform, just a United States of Europe. On 22 May, the British people must ask themselves if they want this and vote accordingly,” he said. “I am sure people will say ‘no’ to this centralist fanaticism.” …
I can’t believe how easily the Europeans have frittered away self-determination.
Boggles the mind...
First they have to have a sense of self. This new socialistic empire strips that away.
I think you’re right. Went to Universal Studios City-Walk about ten days ago. Met a Brit that literally hated Great Britain. It was his take that Europe was so much more advanced and enlightened.
I asked him if he was concerned about Sharia Law being introduced in Great Britain. Didn’t concern him at all.
His wife at one point stated that they DID NOT share the same views. He was a definite LIB and she was diametrically opposed to most of his views, although she didn’t elaborate. Her demeanor said a lot.
Evidently this guy and a great many like him don’t really care that there may not be more than a nation or two where Whites have self-rule by 2050 to 2075.
They’ll care when the cockatrices come home to roost. And they’re already on the wing.
With a Marxist in control of everything... the leftist dream
“First they have to have a sense of self. This new socialistic empire strips that away.”
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No doubt, they will want a common language...Euroeze?
This sounds like an end of the world scenario.
Agreed...
This guy I mentioned prided himself in being a world traveler. Lived in Australia for five years. They travel around the globe meeting new people. It’s evidently his thing.
I can’t imagine doing all that traveling, and not seeing the value of Britain or the United State’s standards, and the need to maintain them.
inneressin’
Yeah, it will work. As long as they ditch their cinder block sized “constitution” and scrap the nanny state. As if...
They have no desire to emulate the USA’s Founding Fathers, of course. Or institute separation of powers (the Commission is all appointed, has sole legislative initiative, and can pass the laws it writes).
Two world wars will do that to a continent.
Two world wars, within a generation, on your continent will do that to you. When Canada rises up and kicks your ass twice, you’ll feel the same.
US of Europe ping.
More like the USSR then the USA.
They desire to emulate the success, I presume. Without any of the hard work.
Living in the United States of America...I say be careful what you want. You might get it.
A better one is to have a kind of wider Swiss confederation (like the old pre-Napoleonic Swiss confederation), where the constituent parts are fully independent, yet have common cause against outside aggressions. This was initially mooted post Napoleon by some guy whose name I can't remember now :) but the idea was a confederation of confederations Europe with entities clubbed together by common historical and linguistic bonds, so an Iberian confederation (Portugal, most of Spain bar Galicia, Basque and Catalan), a Langue-d'Oc federation with Catalan, Provence and Savoy, then a English area, a Celtic area (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Galicia, Brittany) etc.
It was also mooted by ArchDuke Ferdinand as the United Central European state (to convert the Austro-Hungarian empire into this)
Well that's comforting.
Which parts of the UKIP web site are “extreme?
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