Posted on 11/24/2018 2:43:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that European Union (EU) member states must be prepared to transfer powers over to Brussels at a debate on the tensions between globalisation and national sovereignty.
Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty, Merkel said, speaking at an event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin on Wednesday.
In an orderly fashion of course, Merkel said, explaining that while Germany had given up some of its sovereignty in order to join the EU, national parliaments were in charge of deciding whether to sign up to international treaties.
Trust and the willingness to compromise are vital in addressing tensions between sovereignty and globalisation, asserted the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader, highlighting the controversial UN migration pact, debate over which has continued to split her own party.
Merkel condemned the fact that, in discussions over whether Germany should join a fast-growing number of nations pulling out of the agreement, there were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing The People.
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Earlier in the day, the Chancellor had previously accused critics of her plans to sign up to the Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration, which declares migration inevitable, necessary and desirable, of advocating nationalism in its purest form.
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Kinda like our Fed govt is doing. Your handle says it all.
Pull out all the troops, cut off all funding of ANYTHING in the EU and cut off all trade with Germany and France. I can’t think of anything from there that I can’t find somewhere else.
ping! the Brits should be dancing in the streets!
aaaannnndddd...’is Paris burning’???
These people need to understand the European Union is not like the United States and can’t be like the United States.
Why? Language differences.
A Brit can’t move to Poland and get a job in Poland as easily as a New Yorker can move to Texas and get a job in Texas.
A Brit is very unlike to be able to speak or read Polish.
And we thought Alexandria Occasionally Coherent said some idiotic things. Merkel just ran off with the "Stupid is as stupid does" award for 2018 with this one!
Sorry, AOC, Hildebeast and Pug-ugly. Maybe next year.
One flew over the cockoo nest......
If Macron can't envision how this arrangement would play out, he deserves whatever he gets.
“Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty, Merkel said”
Germans last tried that mid-20th century and it didn’t work out so well for them then ... it seems they never learn ...
Once again German control freaks attempt to take over... Well Europe if you go along with this we're NOT GOING TO SAVE YOUR BUTTS...
They sure as hell do.
In an orderly fashion of course, Merkel said
Natuerlich Alles in Ordnung.
But, if Hungary, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic get support from one, Pres Donald J Trump, that may tip the scales in their favor. Long shot, but one can hope.
Nor the desire. But they make an excellent Boogeyman if you need to sell a lot of defense industry products. Russia has around 380k ground troops. Nato has over 2 million. Nato has relentlessly moved east up to Russia’s border.
But Russia is the big threat. They are basically sitting at home, thanking God (who they build churches to) they have a big nuclear force and fending off western launched color rebellions and subversion. We have reversed roles.
True.
I think we should move our European troops into Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, even Romania if they want them. Let our troops pay enrich the citizens of those countries who support us instead of the Fourth Reich (EU).
Poland wanted our missiles, lets send them the whole shebang.
Don’t know ‘bout that.
The Sov, er, Russia is a third world country with a first world (sorta) military.
While they could certainly handle Western Europe’s militaries (sans the US) roughly, I don’t think the Russians could actually AFFORD to conquer Western Europe. It would be a financial catastrophe.
Also, they have to go through an awful lot of other countries just to get to Germany.
They can win in 60 hours according to several think tanks.
Assuming the Russians don’t run out of gas ammo or pay, maybe.
But it would still be an economic catastrophe for them, unless they could extract money from their conquest poste haste!
Don’t underestimate them. Don’t fall for the MSM BS.
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