Posted on 03/16/2017 3:38:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
What most Germans can agree upon is that the EU cannot stay as it is. But when it comes to how change should look, views differ sharply.
The EU is about to celebrate its 60th birthday, but its age is showing. The British have opted to leave, while Euroskeptic parties are growing in popularity in major members, such as France and the Netherlands.
In Germany too, the anti-Euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) are set to win their first seats in the Bundestag (German parliament) this September.
And it seems that the German electorate are also restless for change.
A YouGov poll published earlier in March shows that only 7 percent of Germans say that the EU should “keep doing what it is doing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
The only thing the EU needs is an obituary.
the German people are tired of being tax so much so that a few powerful corporations (that largely run the federal government in Berlin) can, basically, take over the rest of the European countries
under the rubric of the EU
it may sound grand and glorious for the Fatherland, but the average German worker or taxpayer sees only that he/she is being forced to pay for this “silent Aunchlass” of the rest of Europe
1. Bring Back Borders ? LOL
the German people are tired of being tax so much so that a few powerful corporations (that largely run the federal government in Berlin) can, basically, take over the rest of the European countries
under the rubric of the EU
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we are heading in this direction.
The notion of “60th Anniversary” is grossly misleading, because for decades there was not the completely overwhelming nanny state that the EU became in the past 20-25 years. A customs union and some degree of economic coordination (what used to exist) are very different from the kind of trans-national government, Euro currency, open borders b.s. that was thrust upon everyone with no proper debate or political processes.
The proponents of the EU continually make it out to be an all-or-nothing proposition, whereas in fact what existed 40 years ago was much better than what they have evolved into.
Then they try to pretend that Brexit means the UK is no longer part of “Europe” when ofc there could certainly be a new UK-EU relationship that does away with the Nanny EU and the open borders.
Actually, the nanny state was indeed in existence, but not to the degree it is now. The 1957 Treaty of Rome pushed the Common Agricultural Policy on any state that joined the EEC, which dictated who could grow what as well as where and how much. Also, the “transnational government” was in existence prior to the Treaty of Rome, having its beginnings in the Treaty of Paris that formed the predecessor European Coal and Steel Community.
All we are saying is give socialism a chance.
Headline is misleading.
The majority polled want faster, more thorough integration. The EU super state. Main disagreement is over who should be included in the super state.
Very, very small minority want a lesser role for EU in nation state affairs.
No doubt that Germany is the prime beneficiary of the EU. In fact, Germany has been the prime beneficiary of almost all global realpolitik since the end of ww2.
The context of “reform” in the EU is always “more Europe”.
Two in ten are from Syria.
Doomed.
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