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Structures are tools, and they are never better than the people that compose them. Even when they are created with the right ideals, they quickly degenerate unl
by francasso 10y ago
Structures are tools, and they are never better than the people that compose them. Even when they are created with the right ideals, they quickly degenerate unless those ideals begin to become real in people consciousness.
The european project has failed in this sense. Europe is not the euro nor the current european institutions.
Hopefully one day Europe will be the people.
- toyg 10y agoI don't think the fat lady has sung yet. Fact is, in Britain, the most Euro-skeptic country in the Union, almost half of the population is now convinced that the EU is fine. From a historical perspective is amazing, considering the country was dragged in what it was, at the time, little more than a trade union, and is now a semi-federalist structure. We only need a couple of generations of old angry men to die off, and then we'll be ok.
- RGamma 10y agoThey might still not think the EU is fine. Just that leaving is worse. There will be reforms of the EU regardless of this outcome I hope and the member states left might stand to gain from it.
- Radim 10y agoI don't think anyone is really claiming EU is fine. Or that the dividing line is defined along young/old. What is being voted on is simply whether the good bits outweigh the sucky bits. Or whether the sucky bits are at least reformable. Existence of the sucky bits is beyond question.