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The last one, for the moment, It's Michel Houellebecq, the great French novelist and essayist, author of The Elementary Particles: “I am ready to vote for anyone as long as they propose leaving the European Union and NATO”. I care a lot about it"- He was preceded by Emmanuel Todd, the famous historian and sociologist: “When a state and a government lose the power of monetary creation, well, …
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The Hungarian Prime Minister speaks before the plenary in Strasbourg “to defend Hungary which has been a member of the European family for a thousand years”
STRASBOURG – After partially anticipating his speech with several posts on his Facebook profile, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke today in Strasbourg at the European Parliament hearing on Sargentini report in which it will be decided whether or not to sanction Budapest on violation of the rule of law. “You have already formed an idea about this relationship, and my intervention will not change your opinion, but I came anyway. You will not condemn a government, but Hungary which has been a member of the European family for a thousand years. I'm here to defend my homeland”, said the Hungarian prime minister, who defended his actions above all due to the broad consensus that his government receives at home. And really comforted by internal consensus, Orban had no problem taking sides directly against the European institutions: “Hungary will be condemned because it has decided that it will not be a homeland for immigration. But we will not accept threats and blackmail from pro-immigration forces: we will defend our borders, we will stop illegal immigration against you too, if necessary”. The leader of Fidesz, who is part of the European People's Party family in Brussels, he stated how the measures on immigration were taken on the basis of the will expressed by the Hungarian people: “We are the ones who defend our borders and only we can decide who to live with. We stopped hundreds and thousands of illegal migrants and defended Hungary and Europe. The Hungarians have decided that our homeland will not be a country of immigration.". Read More
Bad disturbance arriving from Scandinavia on Brussels, that is, the fall, after more than a century, of the party Swedish Social Democrat. Which would mean a knockout blow to the already precarious political stability of the Union, above all because the expected defeat of the "party-state" given at most to 25 percent (only in the nineties did it travel at percentages around 45) it could be accompanied by the leap of the sovereignist right, dal 4 percent of 2010 al 20 percent in the next general election of 9 September. Brussels looks north with terror because, even if Sweden has the same inhabitants as Viktor Orban's Hungary, its political and symbolic weight is of a very different kind. What would happen if a leak opened in Scandinavia too?, even in the most progressive country, bastion of multiculturalism and universal values of hospitality? In fact the government, despite the excellent results on the economic front, with practically non-existent unemployment, pay for not giving up, not even in times of rampant anti-globalism, to the traditional third world solidarity of Olof Palme's party («we are a humanitarian superpower», Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said just three years ago), welcoming, in a country of alone 9.5 millions of inhabitants, more refugees than all other members of the European Union, 600thousand from 2014, 163thousand asylum seekers in alone 2015. Read More
FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
When Salvini and Meloni were not yet born, was born in Italy, from the womb of The Bourgeois, the League of Brothers of Italy. The father was naturally Leo Longanesi. He dreamed of giving birth a national movement, conservative, popular and bourgeois, that he wasn't neo-fascist, liberal let alone Christian Democrat. But it was seriously post-fascist, since he noticed Longanesi: “Our democracy has only one evil, there is only one defect: that of existing as an opponent of fascism; to live it finds no other justification than that of fighting a dead fascism with Mussolini. Thus we witness a struggle of vertical corpses against a horizontal corpse.". Fantastic. It was the 1955 e 63 years later we are at the same point, even with the grillini in government.
Then and now, there was a need to invent oneself, a movement that represented a large and excluded world, or poorly represented, antagonist to the left, to clericalism and progressivism. We were in the Christian Democratic era, the communists had not yet been admitted into the antechamber of governments, Regions did not exist, Italy was recovering greatly at least in terms of well-being, he had found an acceptable compromise with the past based on oblivion, there was an economic boom and Italians were giving birth a lot, especially in the south. What should we say now, that the world has changed, we are in the European Union, debt is skyrocketing, the regions have destroyed us, we are full of migrants and empty of young people and elites, Italy is duller than then, they no longer have children and the dead outnumber those born? That we need a League of the Brothers of Italy... But the League exists and, if within a month the mood of this psychotic country still doesn't change, it is now even the first party. At his side, small and vainly looking for his visibility and his role, there is what remains of AN and the MSI, called Brothers of Italy, actually led by a sister from Rome, good and incisive on TV. Read More
Of Claudio Risé
Source: Claudio Risé
Breathe fresh air. The words prove it: those repeated to the point of exhaustion decay and to the general amazement old ones return. Drier, irritating, but perhaps even truer. For example, the word enemy is back in vogue, said so, without much fuss. As Donald Trump did from Helsinki, before the meeting with Vladimir Putin, when in an interview with American television CBS he said: “I think the European Union is an enemy. You wouldn't believe it, but Europeans are enemies”. The statement is not presented as a personal matter, even if the large inflated puppet with a Trump-infant with diaper and cell phone in hand, hoisted into the sky for 16 thousand pounds in front of the Parliament in London with the blessing of the mayor Sadiq Khan will certainly have had his part in the matter, as well as the anti-Donald marches in the streets of Helsinki from where the President gave the interview. But Trump reassures: enemies exist, it's not a scandal, nor anything new. On the contrary: “It doesn't mean they're bad.", continued the US president. “It means they are competing with us”. Here again is the child with his scandalous cry that is changing the world: the King is naked.
We are not all friends. But let's not make it a tragedy. It was the story they told us before that was a farce. The displeased European establishment then immediately intervenes with heartfelt denials and firm condemnations, as per the script: the President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk assures us that no! “The US and the EU are excellent friends! Anyone who says they are enemies spreads fake news”, brandishing the most used and worn cliché of the moment to try to fix everything. In reality the fake news, lasted far too long, it's the one that: “we are all friends”. The absolute novelty is the great return of the linguistic category, affective and cognitive of the friend-enemy, which has always presided over human life, to relationships between people, and of course also between states. Well yes: It's true that we don't always love each other; but there's nothing wrong with that and there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Generally, as Puer Robustus says Donald Trump is simply because “we are competing”: better to admit it, rather than cheating the cards. Read More
of the Minister for European Affairs Paolo Savona
Signor President of Confindustria, Lord and Gentlemen,
the date of 27 June, day before the Council of Europe, has proven to be an obstacle to fulfilling my commitment to attend this meeting. At this very moment I am in the Chamber to gather the will of the Deputies on the position that the Government, through its President, will take over at the next summit of 28-29.
Nonetheless, I want it to come to this meeting, together with my apologies for the involuntary absence, a short message from me.
1° The Chapter 2 of the Report on “How and why to strengthen Europe” is the best most recent analysis I have read on the subject. I feared that this topic could not even be discussed in Italy and reading the document reassured me and encouraged me to address the problems under discussion in Brussels by leaving the ccontingent and framing them in the need and urgency of changes in institutional architecturealand dell’EU. Congratulations therefore to the authors of the Chapter and to the Presidency who wanted this meeting-debate.
2° The first, the third and fourth blocks of theIntroduction contain a summary of the contents of the European matters waiting to be regulated. They are therefore an excellent agenda of the choices that must be made. Obviously it doesn't mean that I agree with all the initiatives proposed as a solution, but if we agree on the objectives, an agreement can be found on the technical tools. Read More
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The recent Ipsos survey on Italians' opinion on the European Union went almost unnoticed. Yet it is a hot topic and the popular response is decidedly embarrassing for mainstream living rooms and academies, who have a monopoly on public discourse.
In essence, Italians' trust in European institutions has plummeted. In the 2008 it was around the 75 percent and again in 2011 reached the 70 percent: today it collapsed at 34 percent.
Italy was once the most pro-European country on the continent and today it is one of the most eurosceptic. Never had trust in European institutions been so low.
We were pro-Europeans because they had made us believe that it was all a fabulous dream towards cosmopolitan happiness, like a gigantic edition of “Games without borders”, a mass Erasmus with the background of”Ode to joy” by Beethoven.
And they made us believe that the Euro was “the land flowing with milk and honey”. Rivers of rhetoric, of false promises and illusions.
Then the awakening. The precipice that goes from 75 percent per 34 per cent resembles the sudden awakening from a dream. It is the bitter disappointment of those who open their eyes to something (or someone), after having greatly deluded himself. Photograph the shock of those who realize they have been deceived. And he feels betrayed.
It is the state of mind of those who thought they had embarked on an earthly paradise and instead found themselves in hell. A utopia that becomes dystopia (or even cacotopia).
HOW ITALIANS HAVE OPENED THEIR EYES?
The reasons are many: the discovery of European institutions even worse than the Italian ones in terms of bureaucratic obtuseness and costs; the arrogance with which Italy is treated (also due to the subordination of past Italian governments); the feeling that there is someone who dominates like Germany, while Italy suffers the decisions of others.
But above all, dal 2011, two enormous phenomena have opened the eyes of Italians. Primo: the migratory invasion that Italy had to endure, alone, paying very high economic and human costs. With Europe that – in words – he gave us lessons in do-goodism and then closed the borders.
Second: the consequences – devastating for Italy – of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 which have dissolved all the fake promises about the euro and the European Union which – to listen to the propagandists – they would have protected our country from storms.
In recent years it has been discovered that in Italy – numbers in hand (but also from empirical experience) – we are much worse off than we were 25 years ago, before the Euro (as income, living conditions and how wealth is produced).
And everyone knows that for the first time our children – victims of massive youth unemployment and precariousness that ruins their future – they will be worse off than us. For the first time in our history.
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS DECIDE
Furthermore, we realized that we are no longer masters of our destiny, that we are governed by foreign and unknown nomenklatures that none of us have ever elected. That foreign governments decide on us and impose their will in Brussels.
So we have the feeling of having been expropriated of our democratic sovereignty without anyone ever asking us for permission.
It's a right feeling. It corresponds to what happened from Maastricht onwards. Expropriated of sovereignty without our knowledge. After all, this is the real strategy pursued by the architects of the European Union.
It was expressed by Jean Monnet, who is one of the demiurges of the European institutions, In the 1952. He said: “European nations should be guided towards a superstate without their populations realizing what is happening. This objective can be achieved through subsequent steps, each of which is hidden under a purely economic guise and purpose”.
Hearing these words, Charles de Gaulle replied that Monnet wanted to create “supranational monstrosities”.
But over time it is precisely Monnet's technocratic plan that has prevailed. And here we are today “supranational monstrosity” to which the peoples of Europe are beginning to open their eyes. And to demonstrate their intolerance.
Note from BastaBugie: here are links to previous articles on the European Union
NATALE 2017: FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION THE SAVIOR IS NOT’ JESUS, BENSI’ ROMANO PRODI
The bold professor declares that without the European Union, Italy will disappear from the face of the earth (Please, tell him that Britain has left the EU and does not appear to have disappeared, in fact it is more vital than ever)
by Antonio Socci
http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=4983
BREXIT COLLAPSES THE MYTH OF A MULTICULTURAL EUROPE WITHOUT BORDERS
When asked, the people always reject the European Union, as in 2005 in France and Holland in the referendums on the European Constitution which canceled the (obvious) Christian roots
by Roberto de Mattei
http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=4289
ITALY E’ (IN EUROPA) THE CHICKEN TO Pluck
They told us that the European Union and the single currency were an exclusive club with enormous benefits… and we took the bait
by Antonio Socci
http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=4778
THE EUROPEAN UNION LIKE THE SOVIET UNION?
Soviet Commissar of Education wrote in 1930: ”Our problem now is to eliminate the family and free women from caring for children”
by Dina Nerozzi
http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=2806
In an interview given to public radio, relaunched by Repubblica, the Hungarian president Viktor Orban he expressed his opinion on the new positions taken by the Italian government on the issue of immigration, saying he was ready to help Italy. L’aiuto offerto però, differently than you might think, it would not consist of hiring, from Budapest, of a share of refugees, but in an aid in expulsion procedures. Orban thus reiterates a clear line: l’unica quota accettata dall’Ungheria è la quota zero.
“I understand that the Italians have said with a free vote that they want to free themselves from the wave of migrants.” said the Fidesz leader, “if the new Italian government wants, Hungary led by me, that I was the precursor of firmness in the name of Christian Europe, is ready to provide Rome with its help and experience. Certainly not to divide migrants between various member countries of the European Union. No, we are ready to help our Italian friends expel migrants". Read More
Of Marcello Minenna
What is happening in Italy represents the stone in the pond of German and French intentions, the stimulus to reflection for a European apparatus that so far has shown itself to be almost indifferent to the economic and social implications of too rigid fiscal discipline.
The first exam will be, like at school, in June on the occasion of the meetings of the Eurogroup and the European Council on the review of the Monetary Union.
But unfortunately it is difficult to concentrate on this, given the heart-pounding developments in the Italian political scenario; developments that are fundamentally derived from the expansive approach of the Lega e economic policy program 5 position. Read More
Of Fulvio Scaglione
Source: Fulvio Scaglione
The Iranian crisis, much announced and finally exploded, will test the European Union. It is not the first time that the EU has had to demonstrate its virtues, and the results were not brilliant. This, but, it could be the last because the cancellation of the Treaty signed in 2015 with the government of Hassan Rouhani it could decree the end of any attempt to give Europe a political physiognomy.
The question is very simple. According to the European Union (and also the UN and Russia, moreover), the agreement of 2015, built to block Iran's path to military nuclear power, works, Iran respects the pacts and there is no reason to cancel it after such a short time. According to the USA (and also Israel and Saudi Arabia), on the contrary, the agreement is full of holes, it offers no security guarantees and Iran lies, because he continues to try to prepare the atomic bomb.
It would be difficult to imagine a sharper difference of opinion than this. Which is furthermore broadened by questions of economic interest. The USA wants to favor traditional partners in the Persian Gulf, who are, among other things, much richer than the Iranians. Europe has a long and cordial commercial tradition with Iran, enjoyed above all by Italy and Germany. Our country is now the second largest exporter to Iran (especially mechanical and chemical industries) and the second importer (especially oil) after Germany, first in both sectors. In the 2011 commercial relationships between Italy and Iran they reached their peak, with a value of 11 billions of euros. In the 2012 sanctions, also imposed by the EU, they caused the value of a to collapse 1,3 billion, but the projections for the 2018 they talk about 3 billion, therefore we are rapidly regaining our former positions. Read More