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It is a brave man among the political class of Europe who declares what many outside that class have recognized for years - the EU emperor is naked.
The international socialist movement has subverted rational thought so thoroughly (as it continues to try to do here) that hordes of people do not even realize that the reality presented to them by their leaders and their media is a delusuion, just as it was in the old Soviet Empire and just as it is in all Marxist dominated "solutions".
Well, Mr. Herzog is still German, so the headline should have read ..."German Ex-President" ;-)
He is right, and everybody here should note that he isn´t against the idea of the EU at all, but that he wants certain corrections. And if these corrections aren´t going to be made, the EU will go down by the lack of support of the people.
It also says that the council of ministers should have two chambers for when it is making law.
Another major innovation the EU needs, according to the paper, is a clear cut and definitive list of what the powers of the EU are and what the powers of member states are...
Let's see, convert the beurocracy into a bicemeral legislature with clear constitutional enumeration of the governments' powers and with a quasi-judiciary that rules on whether actions taken by the legislature are in line with the constitutional authority. Actually sounds pretty familir to me. And that's why it will never happen. The most obvious thing to do when trying to establish a new political body / paradigm for Europe that is intended to act as a counterbalance to the US would be to emulate the US. The European elites would be aghast at the idea that the US could be a model for them polticially, so they will never do it. Which is why they will fail in this.
I didn't realize that the President is an ex-German.