The EU sucks

In my opinion, the EU is death ... death of variety of economic systems in Europe, and worse, death of pride and identity and free choice in being .. British, or Greek, or Spanish..
And also a smothering extremely undemocratic and unaccountable (and corrupt) Brussels aristocracy of statist gas-bags with much too much money to spend on wasteful projects.

The vapidity of Europe also leads to extremists (eg radical Islam, le Pen) being successful in European countries, as a reaction to the anemic non-entity that is "Europe".
What does Europe stand for ? kissing Saddam Hussein's and other dictators' asses... while being corrupted by his oil for food program. And selling him tech. to make chemical weapons, and even Nuclear weapons (France).
or "everyone on some sort of welfare", strikes, I have "rights" (but no duties), reflexive and infantile and irresponsible anti-Americanism (particularly in Germany). And a complete abandonment of : securing trade routes, and thwarting saber-rattling Dictators to the US.

Let's play, renovate our churches, have art museums, pretend socialism can make people happy and prosperous, while free-loading on the US as far as defence is concerned.


If there is one place where all the people are living for today, it is the European Union. The EU has deliberately set about trying to smother the identities of its 27 member states (including Lithuania) in a set of common laws, common regulations, common ethics, a common approach to problem solving, a common view of the rest of the world. It has sought to suppress the identities of its component parts in the name of a higher identity – Europe – which turns out to be no identity at all.

No surprise, then, that Europe today increasingly finds itself troubled by a Muslim minority within its midst – now perhaps 50 million strong – that draws confidence and growing power from the sureness of its identity. Does Europe, like America, offer a higher identity to which this minority might adapt itself – even die for? It does not.

Instead, it either pretends that no problem exists, or it attacks outward manifestations of identity, like Muslim headscarves, without making any real effort to integrate Muslims into a genuine European identity that means something more than the absence of identity. Meanwhile, frank discussions of the identity issue are pushed to the neo-fascistic fringe.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121305349075558959.html?mod=todays_columnists