The European people's red line.
By Europe on Friday, June 22 2007, 17:31 - Voice of Europe - Permalink
In these hours of bilateral meetings behind European Council's closed doors every leader underlines his conditions and indicates the 'national' red line. Under this red line every leader threatens he cannot go.
The European Council takes into account the voice of governments making national interests.
But who is in charge to make the general interest during the European Council meeting deciding important aspects of the future of 500 milion of European citizens?
Who can represent the common values and desires of European people as a whole?
European citizens, as shown in the last survey published by FT.com/Harris, are in favour of a European Constitution and want to be heard through a pan-European referendum. But this vision is not represented in the European Council. No one of the national leader is proposing these options coming from below.
The only person could represent the general interest is the chief of the European Parliament Hans Gert Poettering. But Angela Merkel denied him to be part in EU leaders summit.
If we want to build a stronger Europe we need to change the method restarting in a very different way:
NO more IGC,
NO more national veto,
NO more treaties.
YES to a constitutional assembly or convention,
YES to the majority vote and
YES to a European Constitution including the Rights Charter for all European citizens.
European democracy cannot be more denied to European people.
Comments
From my point of view Croatians wants to become fully-fledged member of the EU Union. EU made job that much harder on Croatia, settlement based on deeply felt injustices and EU support for the Titoist-style Communists. Sanader and Mesic have Croatia join as quickly as possible and at any cost is a reflection of their utter bankruptcy as leaders. Their EU fast-track policy is a cheap substitute for the kind of real reforms Croatia needs to undertake if it is to become a healthy, prosperous and vibrant democracy.
The economic and political injustices
Croatia will be transformed into the Puerto Rico of Southeastern Europe: an impoverished economic and political colony of Brussels, whose main purpose is to serve as a tourist destination for vacationing Europeans. Yet as the bulk of the Croatian people suffer, the former communist, as well as current leaders elites will prosper. They will continue the Titoist-style cronyism and rampant corruption that is stunting the country's development. They will make sure to siphon off large chunks of targeted EU subsidies and foreign aid which will enable them to preserve their fancy cars, apartments and privileged status. The current leaders are slick Balkan conmen masquerading as statesmen. If EU falls in Croatia EU is finished.
The injustices of richer country taking from a poorer country's
Hunger for Croatia's Adriatic coast and land is not fair: But Slovenia now a part of the EU gang, is not the only country, EU's land grab crime is lower then we as a free people can prosses. The EU's top diplomat, Jose Manuel Barroso, warned Croatia, no its bully' Titoist-style leaders in Croatia for Adriatic coast and fishing in Croatia's waters. Slovene and EU fishermen like to be able to go about their business unhindered in Croatian waters. What is sad about all this, is the fact that Italy and Slovenia, now a part of the EU gang, disallow Croatia from fishing in their waters, yet they create a storm if Croatia wishes to place the same regulations on their own waters. This is an example of a richer country taking from a poorer country's resources. If this poorer country says anything, then the richer country calls his gang (the EU countries) and they try to intimidate Croatia into giving in. This is just one of many examples.
The injustices of Hague
There is only one man who stands in the way of this path to Croatian destruction: General Ante Gotovina who was charged for drive out rebel minority Serbs. The general is in Hague offering the last line of resistance to the disastrous policies of appeasement by both Sanader and Mesic. By preventing Croatia's bankrupt ruling class from turning the country into a vassal of EU, Gen. Gotovina is saving Croatia one more time. Carla Del Ponte imagined General Ante Gotovina would be an appropriate political "counterpart" for Slobodan Milosevic and other Serbian war criminals such as Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, although the former General Ante Gotovina defeated them and stopped their very crimes. His operation, because of which he is currently awaiting trial in The Hague, was evaluated by the western military experts as one of the cleanest ones in the contemporary Western military history. It caused a minimum of the incidents, given its large scope and an unfavorable balance of forces in the region in which Milosevic's frenzied butchers were fully equipped for the war. The only crime bigger than the war crime is the post war one, for which the aggressor is absolved. Let there be no doubt, Serbia is guilt as sin of the massacre Croatia and Srebrenica. Genocide is not a crime like shoplifting, or even simple first-degree murder. Genocide is not a matter for a protracted criminal trial by an organization that can barely utter the word “genocide” while hundreds of thousands and butchered in Darfur and Somalia and Rwanda and ...
And the EU wonders why there is a growing anti-EU feel in Croatia. It seems that the Croats will endure this insult, in the name of peaceful reintegration. From my point of view, the EU could have made a decisive statement that it would no longer tolerate injustices but it didn’t. It looked into the face of evil, blinked, and babbled in bureaucratic impotence.