When the EU has over 100 regulations on a tooth brush how are they going to handle anything complex.
Sounds like each member was left to fend on its own. In that case you’re better off BEING on your own!
Europe may well need food assistance before the end of next year.
When we save them, we need to be certain that they thank us, and not the CCP who tried to kill them.
Not surprising. Bureaucracies exist only to serve themselves.
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I’m old enough to remember the promises of the “Common Market” as they called it back then:
1) All of Europe to sell your goods to, without tariffs
2) All of Europe to buy goods from, without tariffs
3) Virtually no internal borders - then none at all
4) A single currency
Sounds wonderful, and could have been - which is why it had so much support there.
Now look what it is:
1) Dictatorial role from Brussels (really Germany), via unelected people
2) Open external borders causing repopulation of the entire continent from the Third World
3) An army of people in Brussels writing regulation after regulation, such as 100 of them on a toothbrush (as noted above)
4) Censorship of the media and individuals, along with ‘hate crime’ laws which prevent debate
5) Vilification (or worse, including imprisonment) of those who object to the above, including politicians trying to end that crap
Now that they see the monster they allowed to be created, can the people, will the people, do anything about it?
Who says this is failure?
Maybe they actually have a balance of powers and realize that the all powerful, all knowing, centralized federal government like we have in Washington DC that does NOT take into consideration cultural or geographic differences is not the way to go.
The EU should be there to promote inter state commerce, not regulate how much water is used per flush by a toilet, what light bulb you use, if weed should be illegal, or prostitution… or what a kid eats for a school lunch in every member state like here in the US. The US is a more centralized, top down system then what you have in Europe.
Now, let us flip this argument inside out. Compare the Corona virus mortality rates of Germany, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Norway, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland to the US. Maybe allowing the various member states to do things as they see fit worked.