What’s hilarious is that Ryanair wouldn’t exist without the EU — the EU forced member states to deregulate their industries, allowing Ryanair, Easyjet and other low cost carriers to compete with the big guys.
The EU was set up at a time when Reagan was a god in Europe and the persons that set it up were anything but bureaucrats.
So although the EU name has not changed, the people and character of the organization certainly have changed.
As with any governmental organization it is a given that eventually bureaucratic minds take over. A bureaucrat is someone that has done NOTHING for the last 30 years and looks back proudly and declares they have NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG in their 30 years of doing nothing.
DOING NOTHING AND SAYING NO are high art forms in the careers of bureaucrats.
DOING NOTHING is never displayed openly for there are always meetings to go to and memos about meetings to write, so DOING NOTHING requires an appearance of doing something. One has to be very clever how to play this charade which is why bureaucrats bond well with each other because it’s so much easier to fake to a faker.
SAYING NO is never said directly. A real good way of saying no to someone that brings a really new good idea would be to respond “Very well then, fill out these forms and we will submit your idea to the steering committee of the subcommittee to the general council which convenes next year”. One should have about a hundred good ways to say NO to be a real effective bureaucrat. And one’s bureaucrat colleagues will fawn over one of their own that has mastered the Art of Saying No.
I like this O’Leary guy. Wish he would run for President here. Too bad he’s a foreigner.....Oh Wait!