In a world of rivalries, the EU provides sovereignty: Verhofstadt
In a world of rivalries, the EU provides sovereignty: Verhofstadt from europe
In a world of rivalries, the EU provides sovereignty: Verhofstadt
In a world of rivalries, the EU provides sovereignty: Verhofstadt from europe
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I don’t know who this guy is
But he expressed precisely what I always thought.
If you want to be free of the USA or China, you need to be in the EU. And for the EU to be as fast as America, we can’t keep taking decisions unanimously as 27.
Just imagine if the 50 states of the USA needed to agree to do anything. The EU has done more in few months than in decades thanks to the crisis, but you can’t keep relying on crisis to make it move.
This is what so many people don’t understand. If we don’t pool our sovereignty together, we’re just going to lose it either way.
The idea of spheres of influence or empires is straight out of Putin’s propaganda. How is a collapsing Russia, with a GDP equivalent to Spain or Australia, a future Empire? Or India, despite its population, I don’t see any imperial ambition there.
May we remember this most important decisions of UE Parliament over the last years:
Commission Regulation 2257/94 identifies certain restrictions for fruits that producers have to conform to in order to sell their produce within the EU. The regulation states that bananas must be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature.” Class 1 bananas can have “slight defects of shape” and Class 2 bananas full-on “defects of shape”.
Another one:
From the beginning of February, snails will no longer be snails according to European law. France, the world’s biggest consumer of the mollusk, has apparently successfully persuaded the European Commission to subsidize snail breeding in the same way fisheries are funded.
The snail ruling joins the growing list of EU peculiarities. According to other famous EC directives, a carrot is a fruit.
The EU also regulates the gap between the rungs of ladders to prevent people from the “risky practice” of resting their knees on the next rung up.
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Under-powered vacuum cleaners
The European Commission triggered an outcry by banning powerful vacuum cleaners two years ago, and it could be extended to kettles, toasters and hair-dryers.
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The EU banned the incandescent lightbulb, leading many people to suffer epileptic fits from the flickering, supposedly eco-friendly fluorescent ones that replaced them.
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No one had the balls to divorce from fossil fuel from russia.
Imaginary external threat to justify giving up freedoms. Ironically, it’s exactly the same logic used by Putin.