ALLIANCE FO§ DEMOCRACY

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” .
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.