Posted on 10/17/2014 3:13:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
With two weeks to go until he is formally out of office and, as of yet, with no fixed onward job, Jose Manuel Barroso is a politician concerned with his legacy. [ ]
He argues the EU has emerged stronger from the crisis, equipped with around 40 new pieces of legislation dealing with financial supervisionand a whole lot more power for the European Commission. We have powers that our predecessors could not even dream of, he says, highlighting the commissions new right to reject draft national budgets. [ ]
Asked about the roots of euroskepticisma stronger political phenomenon in recent yearshe says anti-immigration is its biggest driver, on both the extreme left and right. [
] But the great motive for them is not Brussels bureaucracy; the great motive is we dont want foreigners, he notes. Knowing the devils of our past, I think we should be very cautious about it.
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You either love your new, bolshevik overlords, or you must be a racist!
“Knowing the devils of our past”
Barroso, you ARE the “devils of Europe’s past”, you power-drunk jackal.
Who knew that when you give up a national currency you no longer get to overspend as much and as long as you want?
Just say NO! to the Atheist-”Gay” Empire, on BOTH sides of the Atlantic!!!!
And say NO! to the Empire’s muslim allies, too!!!!
That’s one thing. Getting taxed on top of all that is certainly not the way to free up the markets. Never mind the EU looking to institute its own “supranational” taxes.
Not to mention, when has the US federal government made itself the arbiter of state budgets? The EU Brussels “government” did that and used the financial crisis as its excuse.
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