[Paladin2]

When does the UK stop direct funding of the EU overhead?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

>>>> For European leaders, the most pressing question is how to deter contagion <<<<

Contagion = The will of the people.

[Timocrat]

So the reaction of the European elites is to double down on the existing arrangements. No introspection, no self examination about a political entity in which its parliament has no power to initiate legislation, which has two presidents and which has a horde of bureaucrats who legislate what the content of a sausage should be. An entity where the majority of the political power is held by appointed, super-annuated national politicians. What's astounding is that 48% of the voters in the UK voted to remain !

One thing is for sure Trump has gained mightily from this vote, he's riding a wave of popular revolt.

[Sacajaweau]

So other countries now want on referendum on exiting. It’s like they all their thinking caps on at the same time.

[tired&retired]

Germany should be next in a revolt against Merkel.

Here is a tidbit that explains Merkel:

At school, she learned to speak Russian fluently, and was awarded prizes for her proficiency in Russian and Mathematics. Merkel was educated in Templin and at the Karl Marx University, Leipzig, named after the German communist philosopher Karl Marx, where she studied physics from 1973 to 1978. Only after 1991, following the reunification of Germany, the University’s name was restored to the original Leipzig University.

[uncitizen]

Why do people read from a journal that is not in touch with reality?

[dennisw]

The EU would have worked if they stuck to their original mission. Which was to foster a reasonable amount of economic cooperation and trade between sovereign nations. Great idea. Commerce between nations.

BUT THE LIBERAL PARASITES hijacked the EU in Brussels and turned it into some monstrous super-national governing body. Blame this on lazy stupid socialists and feminazi power trips. EU seems to me like Sweden...run by women with a smattering of feminized guys near the top.

Of course the EU nations are to blame some for surrendering rights and governance to the EU in (Muslim attacked) Brussels.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“François Hollande... added that the EU now needed a “leap forward” to ward off the danger of Eurosceptic populists.”

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1961. It ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths, estimated from 18 to 46 million. Coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the foundation of the Great Leap Forward and it motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history.

Being a socialist, François Hollande should be very familiar with what the expression “leap forward” means.