Archive for February, 2012
Twenty-seven European countries belong to the so-called European Union (EU). They are Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. All are in the midst of an economic crisis. However, in the center of Europe, there is a small country, not a member of the EU is doing quite well – Switzerland. Why all of its great neighbor in difficulty? This is a simple answer: The dominant countries of the EU have allowed their dreams to compete with the U.S. as a powerful state to federal blind to the economic, political and democratic. They took their stare.
The name of the game in the founding of the EEC (European Economic Community, the forerunner of the EU), economic cooperation between independent self-governing nations. The nations of Europe smaller countries speak English, Spanish, German, French and Italian, and many others. And they have different systems of government. It is therefore one patriotic nation like the United States of America is sitting and the drafting of a European constitution. But that’s what France and Germany have tried to do – created a European Parliament (EP), which invest the national parliaments of centuries old. But that does not work. People in the UK, for example, only to realize that by requesting a ballot, their “MEP” choose from a list of candidates to receive few, if any of them are known to them. Voter turnout in elections is low. In the United States of Europe (USE) is a reasonable distance, but only in a time scale of decades, a small step at a time when demand democratic, not imposed on recalcitrant nations. Read the rest of this entry »