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| Three issues dominating the European Union, Reform for Governance The free movement of People and the Euro. A real opposition is on its way to the EU parliament. The days of living on easy street are over for the technocrats. Image: Strasbourg and Frankfurt. |
2014 E.U. elections have
returned the roots of a strong tangible political opposition into Europe’s parliamentary
chambers. It is a long awaited opposition to the unchecked faceless technocrats
and passionately obsessive Federalists who have been leading the project to
date.
Across Europe the
results show a backlash to how the Union is managed by those in Brussels.
Change must happen and happen soon.
The first big tests for
the new embolden parliament are centred on three issues
Reformation of
governance; Swift change from technocratic rule to parliamentary democracy is
vital.
Without the mechanisms
to alter major political and economic courses set by a few Federalists from
Luxembourg and Belgium, then democrats across Europe will simply leave the
Union.
The second issue is the
free movement of people across Europe. This is a fundamental principal and pillar
of the Union. But citizens who work hard all their lives and who have built up
their strong economies are loathed to hear on TV documentaries; how new
arrivals of often marginalised people congratulate their hosts on how generous their
benefits systems are to them.
Marginalised and vulnerable
people need to be settled, educated and given a sound stake in their future.
Not tour their neighbour’s benefits systems willy-nilly for easy money and
claim it’s their right to do so under EU law.
The third issue is the
Euro. The statement in July 2012 by a wealthy Banker in Frankfurt, that he
would do, “whatever it takes,” to save the Euro rings echoes of Moby Dick.
If the ship is not built
properly to safety specifications then don’t expect it not to sink in a storm.
If the new opposition is
not respected and these issues are not resolved in an open and transparent manner;
then failure for the project in its present form is assured within the next 5
years.
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