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What This Little Wannabee Tinpot Dictator Really Means
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"Speaking at a EU meeting in Vilnius, Mr Barroso said the era of "limited sovereignty was over in Europe"
The little waiter actually means that the eussr despises and loathes the concept of soverign nations , limited or otherwise
he expects all "members" and their citiizens to bow to the will of the eussr and the fact that Ukraine has hopefully seen the light doesnt sit well with him and his paymasters
"Speaking at a EU meeting in Vilnius, Mr Barroso said the era of "limited sovereignty was over in Europe"
The little waiter actually means that the eussr despises and loathes the concept of soverign nations , limited or otherwise
he expects all "members" and their citiizens to bow to the will of the eussr and the fact that Ukraine has hopefully seen the light doesnt sit well with him and his paymasters
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It’s a funny old world.
Having spent ages prising themselves away from the clutches of the USSR, less than 20 years later the likes of the Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia put themselves up for election to an equally odious bloc whose unashamed aim is the creation of a single nation state and the abolition of individual sovereignty.
For those of us unfortunate enough to live in countries already subsumed into this bloc the funniness of the world is even greater:
President Yanukovych [of Ukraine] had described an EU offer to lend Ukraine 610m euros (£510m; $828m) as inadequate, and said that his country would need at least 20bn euros a year to cover the cost of upgrading its economy to "European standards".
So we have a Union, where some of its existing members are on the point of collapse because of fiscal policies visited on them by Brussels, offering to lend an outside state half a billion pounds. As if this was not bad enough we find that this offer is dismissed out of hand and that twenty five times that sum (about 10% of the GDP of Greece) is needed annually to enable Ukraine to qualify for membership. Just where is this sum to come from and what return on their "investment" are those paying likely to receive?
As I said, it’s a funny old world.
Having spent ages prising themselves away from the clutches of the USSR, less than 20 years later the likes of the Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia put themselves up for election to an equally odious bloc whose unashamed aim is the creation of a single nation state and the abolition of individual sovereignty.
For those of us unfortunate enough to live in countries already subsumed into this bloc the funniness of the world is even greater:
President Yanukovych [of Ukraine] had described an EU offer to lend Ukraine 610m euros (£510m; $828m) as inadequate, and said that his country would need at least 20bn euros a year to cover the cost of upgrading its economy to "European standards".
So we have a Union, where some of its existing members are on the point of collapse because of fiscal policies visited on them by Brussels, offering to lend an outside state half a billion pounds. As if this was not bad enough we find that this offer is dismissed out of hand and that twenty five times that sum (about 10% of the GDP of Greece) is needed annually to enable Ukraine to qualify for membership. Just where is this sum to come from and what return on their "investment" are those paying likely to receive?
As I said, it’s a funny old world.
If I knew where it lurked on YouTube I'd post a link to that clip where Jeremy Clarkson is driving around Spain, admiring all their lovely, smooth, practically empty new roads...
paved with EU money, was the point he was making. (He actually says 'our money' in the film).
As usual, big business wants decent roads and other transport infrastructure to get manufactured goods out and foreign consumer products in efficiently, thus making more profits, both ways.
They like being capitalist and making big profits yet when it comes to to the difficult stuff, like putting the vital infrastructure in place, they want the costs 'socialised'. If they can socialise the costs of upgrading the whole of Spain or Ukraine's infrastructure out of the pockets of everyone in Europe, then so be it.
Makes you wonder if the people we vote for are the ones in power, or merely facilitators.
paved with EU money, was the point he was making. (He actually says 'our money' in the film).
As usual, big business wants decent roads and other transport infrastructure to get manufactured goods out and foreign consumer products in efficiently, thus making more profits, both ways.
They like being capitalist and making big profits yet when it comes to to the difficult stuff, like putting the vital infrastructure in place, they want the costs 'socialised'. If they can socialise the costs of upgrading the whole of Spain or Ukraine's infrastructure out of the pockets of everyone in Europe, then so be it.
Makes you wonder if the people we vote for are the ones in power, or merely facilitators.
"President Yanukovych [of Ukraine] had described an EU offer to lend Ukraine 610m euros (£510m; $828m) as inadequate, and said that his country would need at least 20bn euros a year to cover the cost of upgrading its economy to "European standards".
You are very naive if you believe that, from an ex-convict and known electoral fraudster. This is almost certainly about two things:
firstly the interference of a foreign country in the affairs of another by means of blackmail (and I'm not talking about the EU here of course) and the likely cynical attempt by the President to dodge the difficult (but inevitable) transition of Ukraine's economy until such times as it no longer affects his ambitions to hold in to power.
What is most ironic of all, of course, is the notion of "EUSR", when the real issue here is the attempt by Russia to reimpose its own mini USSR on its unwilling neighbours. I'd have thought all you rampant right-wingers would have seen able to see that at least :-)
You are very naive if you believe that, from an ex-convict and known electoral fraudster. This is almost certainly about two things:
firstly the interference of a foreign country in the affairs of another by means of blackmail (and I'm not talking about the EU here of course) and the likely cynical attempt by the President to dodge the difficult (but inevitable) transition of Ukraine's economy until such times as it no longer affects his ambitions to hold in to power.
What is most ironic of all, of course, is the notion of "EUSR", when the real issue here is the attempt by Russia to reimpose its own mini USSR on its unwilling neighbours. I'd have thought all you rampant right-wingers would have seen able to see that at least :-)
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