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narcasseSarkozy’s Club Med - Mark Mardell’s Euroblog
I’m still not quite at the point of washing my hands of the EU but it’s starting to look less and less like a positive evolution than an attempt to patch up old plans that are failing to work. Sarkozy has been talking about the creation of new institutional structures and certainly the Commission needs some kind of shake-up but there’s still a sense that the technocratic experts are still plugging away at their set agendas without taking public contribution into consideration. The handling of the Irish no vote for instance seems to be indicative of elites attempting to persuade the public to accept their product rather than tailoring their product to public requirements. The quality of the EU is that it ought to be a dynamic entity that can adapt to public needs but right now that doesn’t seem to be happening. And if the EU can’t be embraced by a willing public then that pipe-dream of a cohesive European identification really will be going nowhere any time soon.
There’s a reason that pill was RED - Chaos Marxism
All of which says in a nutshell that once you opt out of the game then you lose any chance of changing the rules in any way.
Also: Files found in abandoned hospital - BBC News
I’m still not quite at the point of washing my hands of the EU but it’s starting to look less and less like a positive evolution than an attempt to patch up old plans that are failing to work. Sarkozy has been talking about the creation of new institutional structures and certainly the Commission needs some kind of shake-up but there’s still a sense that the technocratic experts are still plugging away at their set agendas without taking public contribution into consideration. The handling of the Irish no vote for instance seems to be indicative of elites attempting to persuade the public to accept their product rather than tailoring their product to public requirements. The quality of the EU is that it ought to be a dynamic entity that can adapt to public needs but right now that doesn’t seem to be happening. And if the EU can’t be embraced by a willing public then that pipe-dream of a cohesive European identification really will be going nowhere any time soon.
There’s a reason that pill was RED - Chaos Marxism
All of which says in a nutshell that once you opt out of the game then you lose any chance of changing the rules in any way.
Also: Files found in abandoned hospital - BBC News
