Coronavirus: EU Offers 'Heartfelt Apology' to Italy

The EU Commission president has offered a "heartfelt apology" to Italy for not helping at the start of its deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Ursula von der Leyen told the EU parliament that "too many were not there... when Italy needed".

Many Italians have criticised the EU's response to the pandemic, and say the bloc did not do enough to help.

The commission president added that sorry "only counts for something if it changes behaviour."

And this is exactly what happens when you give up sovereignty for a bigger globalist bloc type governing body the citizens have no direct control over and who answers to no one,

Really makes you want to chuck the nation state sovereign models doesn’t it.

I am living in Germany working as a civilian for the Army, from what I can tell the EU is simultaneously both overbearing and weak. Overbearing in that EU bureaucrats are constantly (it seems) issuing regulation after regulation to govern how daily life is run. But the same bureaucracy is paralyzed by a real crisis.

When the Wuhan virus arrived in Europe, Italy was effectively left to fend for itself. Germany really didn’t consider it a problem until a critical mass of cases were identified north of the Alps in mid-March. At the same time, the European Commission and bureaucracy failed to either take or coordinate effective action to aid Italy and contain the problem.

I have long argued that the EU was simply one step too far. Europe and Europeans would have been a more sustainable alliance if they had stopped at the European Community as it existed before the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. The EC was a better balance as an economic and trade bloc without the EU’s pretensions of trying to become a supernational state.

Europe and Europeans would have been a more sustainable alliance if they had stopped at the European Community as it existed before the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. The EC was a better balance as an economic and trade bloc without the EU’s pretensions of trying to become a supernational state.

The same thing was once said of Herr Hitler. "If only he had not tried to take over the world."

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