By Hans Vogel
All over Europe, voter interest in the upcoming European parliamentary elections is lukewarm to say the least. Although some 80% of all legislation in the “EU” member states is made in Brussels (seat of the European Commission and most European bureaucrats) and Strasbourg (where the European Parliament meets once a month), most voters still seem oblivious of this reality. Apparently, most Europeans continue to believe it is parliament of the nation state of which they hold citizenship, that basically holds power. How wrong they are!
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Actually, most decisions that are affecting their lives are taken by the European Commission, a small group “Eurocrats” appointed (not elected!) to govern Europe. The European Parliament, elected, it is true, in a democratic way, exerts hardly any form of control over the Commission. It does (in theory) have the power of voting down the Commission in case it would commit serious political mistakes or in case it would act against the wishes of the majority in the European Parliament. However, the parliament cannot initiate legislation, which is a key democratic right.
Thus, we have the painful situation that voters actually have a chance to vote democratically for a parliament that in itself has no democratic powers. No wonder there is such scant interest, since most people realise they are being fooled. No amount of “EU” propaganda urging people to vote can remedy this. It will be a miracle if more than about 30% of the voters will actually cast their ballot. In many countries, perhaps some 20% will vote.
It is probably best to compare the European Parliament to the parliament of some 19th-century European nation before the major democratic breakthroughs of the 1880s and 1890s had been achieved.
European countries (those who are members at the same time of the “EU”, NATO, the WTO, the UN and all its derivatives) are no longer sovereign states.
-Their trade policies are determined by the WTO
-Their defence policies are determined by the US government at Washington, which dictates all of NATO's decisions
-Their agricultural, environmental, industrial, transportational and national security policies are all determined by the “EU,” especially by the European Commission.
-As for those who joined the Euro zone, even their monetary policy is no longer subject to sovereign control, as it is set by the ECB at Frankfurt.
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