Posted on 11/01/2025 8:10:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Europe’s deepening economic crisis and a rising conservative front in Eastern Europe are putting the European Union under pressure. Brussels is responding repressively to this growing strain, stepping onto the thin ice of censorship and thought control. This policy forces submission or encourages secessionist tendencies.
Two well-documented political flashpoints best illustrate the EU Commission’s shift in mindset. On one hand, the Brexit process, sabotaged by Brussels and London, and on the other, the ongoing conflict with Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
Orbán has built a political model on resisting open-border policies, deliberate demographic shifts, and the escalating Ukraine conflict. His message is clear: neither a European unitary state nor further concentration of power in the hands of Brussels’ bureaucracy will happen under him. Period.
Orbán insists on national sovereignty and takes the bad press from Brussels, Berlin, and Paris in stride, along with the EU Commission’s recurring sanctions for his unilateral approach to migration policy (paid, of course, by taxpayers).
Over the years, Orbán has become the personified threat of secession in the face of Brussels’ grand ambitions -- a national-conservative “Gallic village” with psychological contagion potential for other nations.
Where globalist ideology inflates transgender claims morally and stages them in the media to achieve what socialists have always sought -- the devaluation of the traditional bourgeois family -- Orbán puts his family policy defenses in the way. Tax incentives for mothers signal clear priorities: in Hungary, the family is the nucleus of society. It is the civilizational powerhouse, a haven of social security, and a formative space for individuals across generations -- where the state has no business.
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When nations joined the EU did they intend or expect to be client states to a bureaucracy in Brussels?
Do widzenia!
Yes, and thanks for the word “dirigisme”.
: ) thanks
Nie ma za co.
The EU is a perfect example of the dangers of centralized power. And also of mission creep.
What started out as a simple coal and steel marketing agreement in 1950 has morphed into the Fourth Reich.
Crazy. And also depressing.
None of them will say "no" to Brussel's money, however.
Meh. Even the center-left parties in Poland reject Brussel’s immigration requirements
Maybe publicly, but behind the scenes, Tusk is letting them in.
When states joined the U.S. did they intend or expect to be client states to a bureaucracy in Washington?
Two points:
1) The EU was founded in part by Communists, intent on "federalizing" Europe.
2) The language used is VERY specific, as the EU wants to say "member state," and not "member nation." The purpose is to use language to subvert the "nation" to the larger nation -- the European Union. Therefore one can expect at some point in time some version of a deep schism or rebellion.
Your choice of "Fourth Reich" is intriguing, especially as one recalls that National Socialists fought International Socialists for power in the 20th century. Today a quasi-international EU wants to gather ever greater power over "states" because "nations" as a concept are the bugaboo to internationalism.
Those Eastern European countries have had enough communist filth to last forever whether from Brussels or Moscow. EU is like Obama rule in perpetuity.
Much of the manufacturing and production is done there.
The loss of Eastern Europe would mean the end to EU industrial capacity.
The Unholy Brussels Empire
Agreed. From the dreams of European empire in the 1800s forward to multiple disasters, today's EU is an expensive behemoth with hunger for increasing political control over its citizens.
The Commission is insular, at this point. We lived in Germany as legal residents for decades before coming home. We experienced the introduction of the Euro, which my wife calculated was a cost of about 9 percent loss to our investments there, not counting inflation. From the Merkel-led "haircuts" for some nations -- "member states" -- and other examples, the EU for us is becoming more and more "soviet" [ meaning committee, council, commission ] and leans towards increasing socialist sentiments. We recall there was another Union of "Council" Socialists in the last century. The rhetoric seems different, but the velvet glove of imagery hides a fist.
Never before has it been so clear that Americans are defending freedom, dignity, sovereignty, and civilization.
Pressure on European civil society is growing, as the U.S. conflict forces Brussels into maximal action. With the introduction of digital identity in England or the upcoming digital euro, the window for meaningful resistance is closing.
Is there another America existing somewhere that the writer is referring to here?
Because the one I’m living in is doing things like scanning the faces of people in the streets in order to verify citizenship, which is biometric collection without consent.
More here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4349955/posts?page=18#18
The document provides new details about the technology behind Mobile Fortify, how the data it collects is processed and stored, and DHS’s rationale for using it. On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are scanning peoples’ faces in the streets to verify citizenship.
“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection..”
Even if the photo does not provide a match, “CBP saves the new photographs and fingerprints, taken using Mobile Fortify [...] and retained for 15 years,” the document says. “ICE will take no action on individuals who are not a match to the hotlist, unless operational circumstances indicate other violations of law.”
“When nations joined the EU did they intend or expect to be client states to a bureaucracy in Brussels?”
Likewise, when Leftists claim that Ukraine is ‘fighting for its freedom’, I just say LIKE HELL. They’re fighting for which side they’ll have to answer to. The propaganda here is SICKENING!
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