Europe
has come as far as it can go before entering familiar murky waters of
forced-fed union. Fear about the future is on present debating
cards. The Greece saga epitomises this fear to take proper decisions leaving citizens wondering what's it all about.
On one hand there is Germany wanting to develop its full potential
but worried about what the neighbours might think. On the other hand
there are those in Brussels who want jump into dark waters but
haven't a clue how to swim in it. The Brits are cautious and of
course the French are just being French. All in all, there needs to
be new universal forums around much needed Brussels reform and to clarify what
modern Europe means to its citizens and what is expected of it. The
Brussels approach in peddling fear of the past as a means to its own
federalist ends just hardens resolve to ask “Why do we need you
when you are the problem.”
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| Brussels gets darker and darker, its message gets weaker and weaker. A new campaign to promote itself is planned for 2013, but is it already too late. 2012 |
With
the exception of those formed to counter external threats,
experiments in force-fed empires, large and small, have been violent
and short lived. The successful Roman, Celtic, Carolingian, Hapsburg,
Ottoman have been European civilisation its self. Their success being
the history, lives and culture of citizens, their societies and the
nation states they created from those times.
Contemporary
Euro federalists and other Brussels institutions don't fit into a
category of society building. And everyone, except themselves, know
it. They follow hollow dreams which have no real support. They have
no credible response to European suspicion about uncertain directions
offered by incompetent bureaucrats. Yugoslavia is a good example of
their moral desertion to citizens in need of help. Until Europe puts
enough distance between its recent clashes of financial and military
competition, the best it can hope for is joint management of the
continent.
The
British are right to question Brussels credentials, but wrong to jump
ship. They are much needed to lead the EU reformists group. A group
on the rise and the best group to rethink a new structure for Europe.
Most of Europe is a wonderful place to visit, enjoy and live in. It
deserves a chance to model its destiny for a future role on the world
stage. What is More Europe at present, but a bickering, back-biting,
backstabbing ritual between Brussels institutions. News to open the
"House of European History" with a start date of 1946 to
celebrate historical
memory
and awareness
of European identity is
proof enough.
Brussels cannot agree on European history prior to this date.
Skepticism is not Europe's enemy, forced-fed federalism is.
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