Junebug
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Lost it. Well done.
Nobel Peace Prize to EU
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Lost it. Well done.
RaleighDevil
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So the EU promotes peace and democracy.
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/nobe...ignores-the-real-heroes-of-peace-and-freedom/
When the Yugoslavs started slaughtering each other over bits and pieces of impoverished Balkan real estate, the EU had a real chance to promote peace. It did nothing of the sort. The greatest humanitarian disaster in Europe since Auschwitz ended only after the U.S. Air Force swooped over the hills surrounding Sarajevo and sent the Serbs packing.
So much for peace, then. As for democracy, the Peace Prize award to the EU drips with irony. The EU is not only un-democratic, in the sense that it is run by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, it is positively anti-democratic, in the sense that the democratically expressed wishes of the European peoples are either ignored or treated with contempt. When the Danes voted against the Maastricht Treaty, they were forced to vote again. When the Irish sunk the Lisbon treaty, they too had to repeat the vote. And when the Dutch and the French said no to the EU Constitution, they were simply ignored.
Here is how the president of the eurozone, Jean-Claude Juncker, sums up the decision-making process in the great bastion of democracy that is today’s EU: “We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/nobe...ignores-the-real-heroes-of-peace-and-freedom/
When the Yugoslavs started slaughtering each other over bits and pieces of impoverished Balkan real estate, the EU had a real chance to promote peace. It did nothing of the sort. The greatest humanitarian disaster in Europe since Auschwitz ended only after the U.S. Air Force swooped over the hills surrounding Sarajevo and sent the Serbs packing.
So much for peace, then. As for democracy, the Peace Prize award to the EU drips with irony. The EU is not only un-democratic, in the sense that it is run by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, it is positively anti-democratic, in the sense that the democratically expressed wishes of the European peoples are either ignored or treated with contempt. When the Danes voted against the Maastricht Treaty, they were forced to vote again. When the Irish sunk the Lisbon treaty, they too had to repeat the vote. And when the Dutch and the French said no to the EU Constitution, they were simply ignored.
Here is how the president of the eurozone, Jean-Claude Juncker, sums up the decision-making process in the great bastion of democracy that is today’s EU: “We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”
Caturday
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Yea, this is complete bullshit.