The Forum > Article Comments > The EU must reform or die > Comments
The EU must reform or die : Comments
By Mal Fletcher, published 28/7/2016If European governments don't very quickly address their mismanagement of migration, more national leaders will shortly face calls for Brexit-type referenda.
- Pages:
-
- 1
- 2
-
- All
Posted by Armchair Critic, Thursday, 28 July 2016 10:11:52 AM
| |
The EU will not 'reform', therefore it will "die". And a jolly good thing too.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 28 July 2016 11:42:34 AM
| |
Talk about overstating the blindingly obvious!
Alan B. Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 28 July 2016 1:13:15 PM
| |
Very true Mal
Merkel's wrongheaded open-borders-fixation should not be allowed to kill more Europeans. Yes Germany commited racial atrocities in The War. But it doesn't lead to logic that Germany (and Europe) should invite in more of a large group now constantly and not "coincidentally" involved in killing Europeans. The danger Australia is adopting this Merkel EU policy disease needs monitoring by the responsible agencies. Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 28 July 2016 1:35:34 PM
| |
There was a recent ABC radio program where a university professor (who was also a Donald Trump supporter), talked about free trade and open borders.
Never before in modern history has free trade been combined with open borders. Until in the EU, and the result has been a disaster. The EU has achieved a debt to GDP of 90%. http://www.statista.com/statistics/269684/national-debt-in-eu-countries-in-relation-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp/ And now the EU is socially imploding. There is a cost with immigration, and what many people do not realise, there is also a cost with trade. And a very big cost associated with free trade. Posted by interactive, Thursday, 28 July 2016 4:50:23 PM
| |
Thanks to Angela Merkel's gross incompetence as a national leader, the EU is already beyond saving. There'll be a lot more pain yet, then a bit of a lag before the cadaver goes cold.
I wonder what she could possibly have thought she was doing. All she has to show for it, anyway, is slaughter and sexual assaults in their thousands. No national leader can afford to open borders to economic (and political) invaders who seek to harm unarmed civilians. The invaders have come to take by force the wealth that European democracies have built up over centuries. And people like Merkel and the bien pensants of Berlin, Paris, Brussels and the other great cities are beyond help. I think it was AJP Taylor who wrote of the Mongols "riding their horses into the great cathedrals of Europe." Well, here we go again, but this time it's the Saracens. It is already too late. An incompatible parasite is now consuming what is left of the old Europe of the Enlightenment. Posted by cato, Thursday, 28 July 2016 5:00:12 PM
| |
Hi cato
Yes the European security multiplex (of many fragments) is suffering the blowback of wayward small "l" liberal intentions. Such are the pitfalls of feelgood trendiness that appeals to Greens (who see security agencies as Fascists) but should not blind Turnbull. This European security regime, with its different organisations, different organisational and national cultures and different languages, has all lead to distrust and inefficiency. Once people cross borders in huge blobs of 100,000s checks and processing get overloaded. Also there are an odd 3,000,000+ muslims in France who have been alienated for decades, never having been integrated. That France has prided itself on being very white, very Catholic and class-ridden is part of the problem - little melting-pot potential. Lack of strong borders allows France's young men to gravitate to the weakest European security setups - including neighbouring Belgium or at least source weapons from the weakest countries. Arab oil money, be it via: - well known (but protected) Saudi private/state interests, or - ISIS's oil trade with Turkey helps sustain weapons and explosive overheads for Europe. The very opposite of the big country regimes who can (hopefully continue to) control to their borders. Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 28 July 2016 6:30:56 PM
| |
Further to:
"Arab oil money, be it via: - well known (but protected) Saudi private/state interests, or - ISIS's oil trade with Turkey helps sustain weapons and explosive overheads for Europe. Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 28 July 2016 6:30:56 PM" The Saudis and Turkey also support terror groups fighting in Syria: https://intelnews.org/2016/07/29/01-1949/ of July 29, 2016 reports: "Unprecedented quantities of weapons and ammunition worth in nearly $1.5 billion have been procured from Eastern Europe and sent to Syria to arm nearly every side in the ongoing civil war, a study has found. The weapons are transported through the Balkans and sold legally to countries bordering Syria, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Once there, they are secretly transported to Syria for use in the bloody five-year civil war, which has so far killed or displaced millions. " "...Investigators say the smuggled weapons have been traced to various factions fighting in Syria, primarily the Free Syrian Army, which is fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But many have ended up in the hands of Islamist militias, including the Islamic State, Ansar al-Islam, and the group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra. " But we all know the Saudis are exempt from international counter-terrorism measures. It was discovered that 15 of the 19 hijackers who hijacked and crashed the 9/11 (2001) aircraft were citizens of Saudi Arabia.* Resulting Australian military action avoided Saudi Arabia as our soldiers died in Afghanistan and Iraq instead. * see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_attacks Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 29 July 2016 7:04:09 PM
|
http://patriotupdate.com/wikileaks-confirms-north-american-integration-scheme/
Oh look they are planning to do it in North America too.
The North American Union, that started with Bill Clinton's NAFTA and will probably be pushed by Hillary Clinton if she becomes President.
Makes you wonder what those secret Wall St meetings Hillary's been holding are all about.
Why is Mr 'Open Borders' Soros donating to the Hillary campaign?
And whats this?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/common-africa-passport-to-allow-free-movement-across-continent-180959875/?no-ist
Oh look they are planning to do it in Africa too.
Who wants to be ruled by offshore beauracrats?
Well everyone's a winner in the New World Order plan for a One World Government.