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The EU Commission knows about popular deception
EU Social Commissioner László Andor sated on Friday 13th (June 2014) before the “Hertie School of Governance” in
Berlin that the
EU is on its arse.
The Commissioner naturally used less unpleasant (and above all many, many) words, but still he is the first EU
Commissioner finally to admit that the Executive of the EU, i.e. almost the
government of Europe,
is obviously aware that the EU is really in such a desperate position as the Alliance for Democracy has been
saying for a long time.
Commissioner Andor went on to say that the EU in its current form is incapable of survival. The balance sheet
of his four-and-a-half years as an EU Commissioner makes sad reading, and reveals:
“The debts of the financial markets have been converted into national debt. The Euro zone has thereby become a club
in which debtors and creditors face each other … The Euro has become a trap, because the member states could no
longer devalue their currencies and were at the same time forced to follow a strict fiscal policy.”
As far as the Alliance for Democracy is concerned, this is tantamount to an honour, because the deceptions, and
the bending and breaking of the law which began with the introduction of the Euro have actually led to the
disastrous development of which Andor is now complaining. He said that the Euro countries have all been deprived
of their financial resources by devaluation or the printing of money, and the respective national economies had
been destabilised.
“The only mechanism that has remained to the embattled Euro countries is the so-called internal devaluation:
Growth is to be generated by strict cost discipline in the private and public sector – i.e. by the loss of jobs
and the erosion of wages. Internal devaluation has led to high unemployment, falling household incomes and
increasing poverty. This entailed misery for millions of people.”
What is astonishing is that Andor actually goes into statistics and figures in his speech, which he himself
produced in his four years as EU Commissioner. The EU Commission has therefore known for at least four years
that the EU has fallen behind the self-imposed targets in terms of all key figures.
Andor sees the cause of this evil, as the Alliance for Democracy described in its
publication,
in the fact that the founding fathers of the EU with a common currency, such as Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterand
and Jacques Delors, must have been well aware of the imperfections of the Euro zone, but hoped that the problems
could be solved by
“social dialogue and laws”
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In view of this revelation, the Alliance for Democracy is forced to the conclusion that never before has so
much been built on sand and speculations as this vision of a common Euro in a common European economic zone,
which in any event had already existed ever since the Schengen Agreement. The introduction of the Euro was
accompanied by popular deception and violations of law; the greatest economic crisis of all time is now looming,
in which we have been brought down by party-political jugglers and megalomaniacs; Andor talks about the “Delors
paradox” and of the “veil of ignorance” of the founders of the EU over the consequences of their political
decisions.
Andor’s summation is quite sensible:
“The EU cannot live all too long with the risk of the collapse of the common currency, because this would also
mean social and political collapse. If our economic and currency union is to be irrevocable, then it must be fair,
and based on solidarity. Either we give up the dogma that there can be no transfer payments in the Euro zone, or we
give up our European social model.”
The EU Commission commented in reserved terms on Andor’s analysis.
The Alliance for Democracy hopes that those responsible will think up some good answers for the complaints before
the court in Den Haag, if they are accused of political mistakes of the most inhuman kind. There must be
changes,
as long demanded by the Alliance for Democracy. And then there must be a new vision of a common Europe, which
really takes Europe into account, and not simply satisfies the dreams of party-politicians, who want to secure
for themselves a place in the history books, without ever actually having done anything to earn it. The EU
political clique deserves nothing better than to go down in history as an example of crass failure.
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