The migration issue has come to the forefront once again. Four countries blame Jean-Claude Juncker for Brexit and two seek his ouster.
The Financial Times reports Eastern Europeans Bemoan Brexit and Shun Closer EU Integration.
Key Ideas
- Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic issued a joint statement “The genuine concerns of our citizens need to be better reflected. National parliaments have to be heard.“
- Poland and the Czech republic want Juncker booted.
- Governments in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Bratislava say powers should be repatriated to national capitals to make the EU more democratically accountable.
- “No one believes in the United States of Europe” said Poland’s deputy prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
- “Our voice is the voice of reason,” said Morawiecki, “as for many years the British voice was the voice of reason.”
- Czech prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said the overall functioning of the EU and the commission should change.
- Robert Fico, the Eurosceptic premier of Slovakia — which takes over the EU’s rotating presidency this week — has offered to host an exceptional summit to discuss the bloc’s future shape. “If somebody thinks we can offer to the European public what we give it now after Brexit, they are mistaken,” said Fico.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Juncker ousted?
Yes: a) The EU has come to its senses and wants nothing more than easy trade among all members. b) The EU blames Juncker for the Brits leaving and has someone in mind for a replacement who can keep outliers in line better and coerce current doubters more effectively. If so, who is running the EU behind the curtain to make this assessment? Who is Juncker’s boss?
No: a) Continuity is key and the message must remain stable and consistent b) Juncker is the smartest man in the room and this speaks not well for the others, or the EU from a succession point of view. This implies an EU with no plan beyond simple applied passive aggression and kick the can. If so, this allows a charismatic manipulator can follow through at a later date as deterioration sets in and can’t be painted over any longer. (remember the last one in Europe?)
Interesting times. Do you want financial collapse or WW III? Just looking long range.
Do you want financial collapse or WW III?
Since when do Europeans get a choice?
“Do you want financial collapse or WW III? ”
Considering WW III is likely to be a bit of a pain, while “Financial Collapse” is, at this juncture, a virtually unconditional Good Thing; I’d say the choice is pretty obvious.
It is July 1st after 1:00 PM PDT. The software bug at Word Press still prevents anyone from voting Like and their name showing. This is a problem at this site. There also are problems in the economy and the Federal Reserve. Are we all just kicking the cans down the road ?
Free trade, an imminently sensible idea that nearly everyone can agree with, has always been used as a pretext for the incremental creation of an authoritarian undemocratic superstate, which hardly anyone wants.
Because of this underlying deceit, hardly anything in the EU sphere makes sense on the surface. When Brussels is involved, the underlying motivations for political and economic developments are often quite different from what it says on the box.
The founding members of the EU like Monnet were quite explicit about this need for the continual process of deception that was going to be needed at every stage of the process, so we have all been complicit in what amounts to a gigantic conspiracy to eradicate democracy in Europe.
In the early 1800s this was attempted by one megalomaniac and in the 1930s/40s by another. Third time lucky ?
It is time for the USA to realize that it is also a UNION … !!!
The president gives an annual report called the state of the UNION.
The 13 Colonies/States existed in 1776. The UNION did not come into existence until 1781.
We want MORE FREE MOINEY.
So we discover “Our voice is the voice of reason,” said Morawiecki, “as for many years the British voice was the voice of reason”! One of my motivations for Brexit was the lack of support for the British viewpoint from the other member states.
From a UK perspective now, it is better that Juncker is kept in place and better that the members of the rump EU stay within it pro tem (pending its final collapse of course). Ha ha.
Juncker’s arrogance and infantile temper tantrums haven’t helped the EU, but the EU has far bigger problems than Brexit.
One of Juncker’s many 2-year-old style hissey fits.
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Eastern European countries have great knowledge about centralized socialistic governments so they are just afraid that EU will be the similar kind of monster…which it of course is…
“Governments in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Bratislava say powers should be repatriated to national capitals to make the EU more democratically accountable.”
Brussells says Fat Chance.
Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic issued a joint statement “The genuine concerns of our citizens need to be better reflected. National parliaments have to be heard.“
These countries don’t want to go from Soviet Union eastern Europe to Soviet Union western Europe. They want those days to be over, for good.
It looks as if Germany really did give these nations an ultimatum.
And it seems as if they have rejected the creation of a European Superstate.
Put the migrants crisis where it belongs,at the feet of Mekel’s Germany!
No, no, no, we want to keep Junker for the sheer entertainment value of having a self declared lying numpty at the head of the EU. A bit like Trump. You can poke fun at all the nitwits who want him as president too. United States of Europe and America with arrogant buffons at their head. You can’t buy better comedy.