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Yes. While i am in favour on many basic ideas of the EU, in in current state it is doing far more harm than good and i do not see that changing. The bureaucrats
by sparkling 8y ago
Yes. While i am in favour on many basic ideas of the EU, in in current state it is doing far more harm than good and i do not see that changing. The bureaucrats in charge seem incapable of reforming the institution. Therefore: abolish and rebuild.
Honestly for me this looks like history repeating itself, i see many parallels to the USSR:
* Unaccountable bureaucrats with names largely unknown to the public are in charge. 99% of EU citizens could not tell you who the presidents of the EU council, commission or parliament are -- or even what the difference between those three entities is. Hell, even many political commentators couldn't tell you.
* Anti-EU fores within the EU are "bullied" out (think about the european constitution referendums in France, Ireland etc.). There is a "make them vote the right way or change the rules" mentality.
* Pumping out a vast number of laws, rules and regulations. Dairy farmers have been subjected, in the last few years alone, to 1,100 separate, specific new laws.
* In the former USSR the citizens of individual countries were told that they should forget about their
former national identities. They should, they were told, consider themselves members of the USSR rather than citizens of Ukraine or Estonia. Exactly the same thing is happening in the EU superstate.