Strong
feelings stretching from London to Kiev are prevailing against and for the
Union. Is the noble idea of European Union going the way of the Eurovision song
contest!! We shared a common effort to sing together during the 1960’70’s and
80’s. Now this show (the song contest I mean) represents an out of tune affair
with little interest from the west other than the giggles its bizarre content
supplies.
But at least
it is somewhat entertaining if not a bit childish. On the other hand there is
nothing laughable about the mounting task facing Europe to sort out its EU future.
More and more Brussels central is being portrayed as self-serving. The EU is increasingly
becoming a personality with its own distinct character; an entity shaping a future
separate to its original purpose with little regards for the sensitivities of
the nation states which created it. Ultimately these states will destroy it
should no consensus be found on direction over the coming decade.
In a
democracy you cannot pass laws influencing people’s lives secretly and without
their knowledge and then insist to applying these laws as if they have common
approval.
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Country
identity belongs to those who built it over generations and not to the hungry EU.
This message needs to be listened to.
So this is
Western thinking. The western media is now full of this argument with London
the centre of resistance. Big, rich, confident and assertive, why should this
glorious capital bow to a commission of 28 and its army of 60,000 technocrats!
The flip side
to this coin is in the East. While some mutterings may from time to time come
from the Czechs general support for the Union is solid. It is the unsure,
the poorer, the downtrodden and the aspirational who see the Union as means to
feel free even though they have little or no say in creating its laws. Their
choice is simple. Who is the lesser of a dictate directive! Brussels or Moscow!
It is totally understandable that Putin’s Russia is unappealing to former
Warsaw pact countries.
Russia stepped
in and is telling Ukraine which road to tread and if Ukraine follows regardless
of the will of its citizens while the EU looks on and does nothing, then London
will win its biggest fight. Oh yes The EU is big at spending but when citizens freedom
is under threat it is not the EU who offers protection but our very own
national capitals.
When songs
are singing for Europe in Denmark 2014 it may be that Ukraine opts to play Shakespeare’s
Hamlet instead.
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