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EU elections: DINOsaurs duck first meteorite
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Published time: May 26, 2014 08:14
A man walks past a board displaying provisional results of the European Parliament election at the EU
Parliament in Brussels May 25, 2014. May 25, 2014. (Reuters/Francois Lenoir)
With the EU in economic decline, voters have demonstrated broad anger at the institutions and their aloof ,
incompetent stewards, Democrats in Name Only (DINOs).
However, rest assured, mere voters are not worthy of consideration when the Brussels elite knows better.
Back in the good old days, the West used to look smugly at the gerontocracy in the Warsaw pact, where old
men did everything within their powers to control an increasingly restive population. Times have changed.
In the past decade it has become increasingly clear that the Brussels apparatus seeks not to endorse
liberty but rather propagate an outmoded f orm of centralized control. Private enterprise is being strangled
unless it can af f ord to comply with an ever multiplying quantity of rules, regulations and red tape which
create a distorted protectionist zone. As the world economy pivots east, Europe is being lef t behind.
The votes have been cast and the polls counted. The verdict is in: a mixture of damning indictment of EU
f ailings married with a collective apathy towards the Brussels bubble.
However, this collective distaste f or more Europe will not trif le the mass ranks of presidents,
commissioners and apparatchiks. Hypocrisy thrives at the epicenter of Brussels: democracy is essential f or
others, but unnecessary f or an EU where the great unwashed have an annoying habit of voting against the
treaties the Eurocrats desire. Thus the EU developed a remarkable habit of insisting that ref erenda are
rerun until the right result is occasioned.
The Lisbon Treaty was an even greater sleight of hand. When Dutch and French voters rejected a European
constitution in 2005, a new treaty was rammed through, regardless of the will of the people. Thanks to
this democratic def icit and lack of accountability at EU level, Europe is now rooted in long-term economic
decline. Meanwhile the euro currency is held together by duct tape and the sheer bloody mindedness of an
elite valuing deluded dogma above the economic welf are of the people.
Members of the electoral table count the ballots af ter the European Parliament elections at a polling
station in Ronda, near Malaga, southern Spain, May 25, 2014. (Reuters/Jon Nazca)
No more Europe
The latest European elections ought to mark a turning point in the increasingly unaccountable European
project but outgoing President Van Rompuy has already made it clear the misgivings of the Euroskeptic
minority will be ignored. Thus the two f aces of the EU are apparent - democratic platitudes on one side
while on the other: dictating an outmoded big government top down approach (which is clearly f ailing the
people).
The EU is now the preserve of the 21st centurys DINOsaurs: Brussels oligarchs who are Democrats in
Name Only, with a distinctly archaic approach to growth, as demonstrated by their desire to expand the
empire east (into Ukraine and beyond), despite being unable to deliver coherent prosperity in their own
back yard.
Thus the European Peoples Party (EPP) alongside the Socialist and Democrat (S&D) parties will maintain
their longstanding grand coalition agreement despite the upsurge in Euroskeptic votes. Their grand
coalition is a variant of electoral dictatorship: ramming through more regulations and above all, more
Europe, at every turn.
That the people of Europe are clearly losing their enthusiasm f or the EU is irrelevant to the rather archaic
structure of the European politburo, busy dictating daf t centralized approaches to tractor production while
competing economies are driven by high tech innovation. (In a marvelously absurd outburst last week at a
Brussels conf erence, President Barroso gave a speech on the topic of developing a more entrepreneurial
Europe, wondering aloud why so many Europeans emigrants are developing new technology in silicon
valley, without bothering to consider that his Jurassic Park of central planning cannot replicate the dynamic
f reedom f rom bottom up technological innovation dominant around Palo Alto.)
Adding insult to injury in their contempt f or European voters concerns, the DINOsaurs will soon f urther
endorse their self -imposed democratic def icit. Af ter lavish dinners at taxpayers expense, EU leaders
summits will f udge candidates f or the various presidencies and commissioner posts. Voters will, as always,
be an af terthought in a process where only those pledging blind allegiance to the Europhile mania can be
considered f or high of f ice.
Welcome to business as usual in the European Union. A once-mighty continent is regulating itself into
irrelevance, demoting a once proud trading bloc to being a global also ran. Europe is stagnating under the
thumb of a blind dictatorship of dinosaurs. Extremist politics the EU promised to expunge are returning.
While the 2014 electoral meteorite has not rendered Europhile dinosaurs extinct, another f ive years blithely
treating voters with contempt will seriously endanger the European project.
It is time f or no more Europe.
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