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French PM: Europe must stop being finicky and intrusive
Reuters ^
| June 26th, 2016
| by Ingrid Melander
Posted on 06/26/2016 10:33:05 AM PDT by Mariner
The European Union must stop being nit-picky and intrusive, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday as the bloc scrambled to handle the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave.
The Brexit vote to leave the EU has deepened fears among mainstream politicians across Europe about the rise of eurosceptic, anti-establishment parties, particularly in France, where the far-right National Front is increasingly popular.
That concern has also prompted mainstream French politicians on the left and right to call for an overhaul of Europe, in a country where surveys show disillusionment with Brussels is growing.
"We must put an end to this sad and finicky Europe. Too often it is intrusive on details and desperately absent on what's essential," Valls said. "We must break away from the dogma of ever more Europe. Europe must act not by principle but when it is useful and pertinent."
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy echoed those sentiments. "Europe cannot continue to build itself against the people," he said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2016election; brexit; brexitwins; brixit; brussels; election2016; eufuture; europeanunion; euroskepticism; france; manuelvalls; nato; newyork; nicolassarkozy; rapefugees; trump; unitedkingdom
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Doesn't look good for the One-Worlders.
They now sit among each other listening to Lennon's Imagine and drinking $500 wine.
Lamenting the loss of the good ol days.
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:33:05 AM PDT
by
Mariner
To: Mariner
Where are the crusaders?
or have their children forgotten?
Its time for them to pick up that rusty old sword!
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:38:13 AM PDT
by
himno hero
(hadnuff)
To: Mariner
Government, any government, can’t help but be nit-picky and intrusive.
The more layers of government people have over them, the more helpless they are in preventing it.
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:39:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Mariner
Boggles the mind that anybody would continue to want Europe to disintegrate under the weight of socialism and forced immigration, immigration of the very enemies of the countries that are forced to receive them.
The question is, "what's in it for the globalists?" What was in it for Jorge Busho and company?
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:42:42 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
(Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
To: LouAvul
If anyone at all does not know the answer to that question, there is one reason for not knowing.
And only one.
No other reasons are plausible.
They don't want to know.
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:45:53 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Mariner
What they need are some really good lies.....er, I mean campaign promises to stay in power and keep doing what they have been doing.
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:51:09 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(Allah's paradise is full of mass murderers)
To: Mariner
They should go back to the Common Market arrangement.
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:53:35 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: LouAvul
They may have overplayed their hand. The system was not in good shape before, but flooding the zone with invaders is not a sustainable policy.
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posted on
06/26/2016 10:56:05 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Make America Normal Again)
To: MrEdd
It’s a rhetorical question. Just follow the money. Always follow the money.
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:00:57 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
(Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
To: All
Really, really interesting comments.
If they had given Cameron some better deals when he went to negotiate a few months ago this whole Brexit would not have occurred.
Perhaps they are now working out that Cameron and the UK were correct about the over-reach of Brussels?
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:02:00 AM PDT
by
az_gila
To: ichabod1
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:08:12 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: Mariner
So now the French get to criticize somebody else for being too finicky and intrusive. Sweet!
To: Mariner
Too often it is intrusive on details and desperately absent on what's essential," Valls said. "We must break away from the dogma of ever more Europe. Europe must act not by principle but when it is useful and pertinent."
And how would you accomplish that? The nature of bureaucracies is to grow and accumulate power and control. Create a bureaucracy with control over 28 nations, and expect each of those 28 nations to lose power and control to the bureaucracy. That's why Brexit passed - Britain's own bureaucracy of course also has the same impulse toward power and control, but it's at least nominally under the control of British politicians elected by British voters. That is simply not the case in the EU, where Brussels-based bureaucrats from Germany or Italy can decide an issue for a British citizen.
To: Mariner
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:48:25 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: lee martell
The CESMs got out-CESMed.
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:49:03 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: MrEdd
It sounds like the ultimate backfiring feelgood move to me.
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:50:07 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: BenLurkin
Government, any government, cant help but be nit-picky and intrusive.
True enough, it's what they do.
Still, the eurocrats have honed it to a fine edge.
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posted on
06/26/2016 11:51:31 AM PDT
by
867V309
(It's over. It's over now.)
To: LouAvul
“The question is, “what’s in it for the globalists?” What was in it for Jorge Busho and company?”
Power and control.
To: ichabod1
Calling anyone who disagreed with their plans a racist xenophobe was probably not a good call either. They turned up the heat on the frog too quickly.
To: LouAvul
The question is, "what's in it for the globalists?" What was in it for Jorge Busho and company?
Money and power trumps the survival and well being of their country. It's called TREASON.
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