Can the EU Be Reformed?

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Can the EU be reformed?
by Fjordman

The controversy surrounding the Greek debt crisis, referendum, and possible exit from the euro common currency has exposed major tensions underlying the European Union (EU). As the writer Jeremy Warner comments:

Unintentionally, Greeks have done themselves — and perhaps the rest of Europe too — a favour by voting no. They have been misled by their Government, not to mention a whole host of famous American, salt water economists — Sachs, Krugman, Stiglitz — into thinking they can somehow bring the rest of Europe to heel by facing their creditors down. They cannot. (To be fair, Krugman seems to appreciate better than the other two the vital importance of exchange rate in debt relief). By voting no, they have put themselves on a path to exit and the unilateral debt relief of default. Like Germany in 1953, this offers Greeks the possibility of a new beginning, and with a bit of luck, they might also have fatally wounded the entire euro project.”

This leads us to another question: Can the EU be reformed?

I have had my doubts about this for years. The EU system is so fundamentally flawed and corrupt that it is doubtful whether it can be reformed in any meaningful way. Corruption and a chronic lack of accountability are not flaws in the system; they are there by design. The EU oligarchs have proven themselves very adept at exploiting crises to further more federal integration. This even goes for problems they have themselves created.

The entire EU system since the days of Jean Monnet has been built on creating a European superstate through deceiving the European public by presenting it as merely an elaborate free trade zone. Lies and deceit have become part of the structural DNA of the European Union.

The EU has essentially bribed the political class throughout much of the European continent, and bought their personal loyalty and support. If they become a part of the EU system, they receive well paid jobs. Moreover, they don’t have to answer to the average citizen for what they do, or how they use or abuse their power. It is easy to see why some people find this combination alluring.

The EU elites have a strong vested interest in keeping up a system that provides them with money, power and prestige. For this reason, any attempts at “reform” are likely to be purely cosmetic and designed to appease the masses. The EU has become a bureaucratic colossus. Just like all bureaucratic systems, it has a natural tendency to try to expand its reach.

I don’t see any solution to this other than to formally and publicly abolish all of the institutions of the European Union. For something like this to happen, the EU would have to face massive and sustained popular pressure throughout the continent. This is unlikely to happen without a major and prolonged economic crisis that destroys the credibility and legitimacy of the EU in the eyes of the general public. We may be heading for just such an event in the years to come.

It is not fair to blame the EU for all of Europe’s ills. For instance, low birth rates are currently found throughout the continent, also in European nations that are not members of the EU. However, the EU makes some existing problems even worse. It also adds new ones of its own making.

If we look at the big picture and the geopolitical situation, Europe as a whole faces major challenges in the coming decades. Two of the biggest ones are the escalating Jihad of radical Islam, and large-scale illegal immigration due to the population explosion in parts of the global South. The EU does not adequately address any of these threats. On the contrary, it makes them worse. The EU continues promoting Muslim mass immigration to Europe. The organization also seeks to force all of its member states to accept illegal immigrants from Africa and the Islamic world. By embracing Islamization and the gradual displacement of native Europeans, the EU has arguably become the anti-European Union.

Future historians will debate whether the EU was a good idea gone bad, or whether it was a bad idea from the very beginning. However, in my opinion, there can be no doubt that the EU as it exists today is a failure. The organization does not solve Europe’s most important challenges, and it adds new problems of its own making.

I cannot predict exactly how or when the EU will finally fall apart, but I strongly suspect that a major economic meltdown will play a major part in its collapse.

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4 thoughts on “Can the EU Be Reformed?

  1. Well, over here in the USA, we thought the Common Market (precursor to the EU) would be a good idea. It seemed so good when Adenauer, De Gaulle, Spaak, and suchlike were all making nice with each other. Never again would American boys have to go “over there” to straighten out Europe’s messes! Believe it or not, for Americans of my parents’ generation, that was a big issue, and there was a lot of American good will for the CM. Then again, Fjordman, I understand that Norway was always a little reluctant to sign on, no?

    • The EU was never a Common Market, that’s merely how it was sold to European electorates- in reality it was always meant to be undemocratic and always meant to be a superstate- that it’s turning into the ‘new Soviet’ should have any freedom-loving American or European for that matter, seriously concerned.
      The EU is a generational reaction to fascist Germany and as such the destruction of the nation state is one of its main agendas.
      But it has no demos or democratic mandate in Europe, only the consensus of the bought or ideological politicians who are on the extraordinarily corrupt EU gravy train- indeed one scandalised insider reckons 95% of all EU laws are written with no democratic oversight whatsoever and the minor bureaucrat is the Master of the Union.
      http://euobserver.com/political/119181
      http://www.ksap.gov.pl/ksap/file/publikacje/Hijacking_Comitology.pdf
      Imagine as an American you were ruled by unelected bureaucrats in Mexico as part of what was sold as a Common Market but in reality is an undemocratic wealth redistribution and massive social engineering works.One that includes deliberate Islamification as preparation for the eventual open border utopia with many populous Muslims nations .
      http://www.freeworldacademy.com/globalleader/europeanconstitution.htm
      All while the highest court of the US was in Brazil with unelected judges from countries not even part of the fake Common Market.

      Sovereignty and legal supremacy are given away while politicians and civil servants lie about it.
      Various security services from around the world, have clandestine propaganda efforts to get Americans to join- just like the CIA did with the EU.
      http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/mi6.eu_stel_27apr1997.html
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html
      Anyone opposed to this project is called racist or xenophobic- free speech and protest are slowly throttled to accommodate Islamification and mass immigration.
      Oh and some Brit pops up to tell you what is best for America.
      ……………………………
      Would you want that happening in the US? – don’t expect us Europeans to want it in Europe but that’s exactly what has/is happening.

  2. The EU is the Caliphates dream. It was virtually impossible for primitive Muslims to penetrate anywhere in the period before the EU. At best maybe a temporary work visa for a nice lazy as sin step up to sweeping West Germany’s streets and gutters. Now Euroland is well and truly split and fragmented every which way and it is increasingly looking like the proverbial piss-up in a brewery that could not be organized. What the hell do east Europeans know about west Euopean government? All those open…well…..
    everything.

  3. Peter Sutherland, United Nations’ ‘Special Representative for International Migration’, patronisingly and disparagingly remarked that the people of the UK

    “still nurse a sense of [their] homogeneity and difference from others”.

    How disgraceful of them. What is his remedy?

    “And that’s precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.”

    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6172-peter-sutherland-undermining-the-nation-state

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