Why the European Union Must Be Abolished

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Why the European Union Must Be Abolished
by Fjordman

In October 2008, I published an essay entitled Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union. The reasons I cited back then (and many more could be mentioned) were:

1.   The EU Promotes Crime and Instability
2.   The EU Weakens Europe’s Cultural Defenses
3.   The EU Promotes a Bloated Bureaucracy
4.   Excessive Regulation and Centralization is bad for Freedom and for Prosperity
5.   The Lack of a Real Separation of Powers in the EU Invites Abuse of Power
6.   The Lack of Transparency Leaves the EU Vulnerable to Hostile Infiltration
7.   The EU Leads to Less Freedom of Speech
8.   The EU Fails to Consult its Citizens and Insults Them When Doing So
9.   The EU Undermines Political Legitimacy and Connections between Rulers and the Ruled
10.   The EU Spreads a Culture of Lies and Corruption
 

The European Union (EU) is not good for prosperity in Europe. Perhaps it would have been so if it had remained a free trade zone, as it was first claimed to be. However, the bloated and excessively centralized bureaucracy of the EU today is clearly harmful to ordinary Europeans. It is nonsense to believe that this ramshackle, top-heavy Frankenstein monster is going to make Europe more competitive.

As I warned in 2008, the EU does not protect the peace in Europe. On the contrary, it undermines stability in the continent by dismantling border controls at a time of the greatest population movements in human history. Many immigrants come from unstable countries whose instability spills over to European states. Through its senseless immigration policies, the EU may become partially responsible for triggering internal conflicts in several European countries. It may be remembered as the “peace project” which brought war to Europe again.

The European Union has created a borderless region from Greece to France and from Portugal to Finland, yet the citizens of these countries still pay most of their taxes to nation states whose borders are no longer upheld. It is ridiculous to pay up to half of your income to an entity that no longer controls its own territory or legislation. Unless national borders are re-established, the citizens of EU member states no longer have any obligation at all to pay taxes.

The EU promotes a ridiculous amount of laws and regulations, yet street crime goes largely unpunished. Laws are used to punish law-abiding citizens while real criminals rule the streets, although this flaw is admittedly shared with many national governments. European authorities make a mockery out of the social contract every single day as they fail to uphold law and order.

In Scandinavia, the cultural critic and columnist Kasper Støvring published a book in early 2014 making many of the same arguments: The EU does not promote “peace” in Europe. On the contrary, it could be sowing the seeds of future conflicts by systematically breaking down dozens of European nation-states at the same time. The open borders through its Schengen Agreement and the legal and illegal mass migration promoted by the EU’s policies are particularly dangerous.

What has changed since 2008? Nothing. At least, nothing positive. If anything, the problems are worse today than they were some years ago.

The financial crisis was then just beginning. It turned out to be so serious that the euro, the common currency for many (but not all) EU member states, could have collapsed. It hasn’t, at least not yet. But the crisis has still not been resolved. It has hit many countries in southern Europe hard, including Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. The public debt keeps mushrooming.

The euro currently seems like a bad idea. Greece does not have the same economic level or industrial output as does Germany. It is artificial for these countries to have some same currency.

In fairness, a few of the problems we are currently witnessing are not unique to the eurozone. Britain, which is a member of the EU but not of the euro, also suffers from spiraling debt. So does the USA, and for that matter Japan. In all of these big economic blocs, the central banks have for years been extremely aggressive with money-printing, although this hasn’t solved the underlying issues.

The EU is not the cause of all of Europe’s ills. Many of them are common to the entire Western world. A few of them are even more pronounced in North America than they are in Europe. However, the EU makes many of these fundamental problems worse, and adds several more on top.

It would be worthwhile to debate whether the EU was fundamentally flawed from its very inception, or whether it was a good idea that turned bad somewhere along the way. I used to be more pro-EU as late as in the 1990s, but then I was young and naïve. When I read about how Jean Monnet and other key players from the beginning wanted to sell a planned European political federation as merely a free trade zone, I am tempted to conclude that the EU was indeed flawed from its very inception. It was born in lies and deceit.

Regardless of whether the EU may once have been a good idea or not, the actual organization as it exists today has become thoroughly corrupted. It is increasingly totalitarian and wedded to dangerous Utopian ideas.

Can the European Union be reformed? I find the possibility very unlikely. The entire organization is now rotten to its core. It has, sadly, managed to bribe and seduce the political establishment throughout much of the European continent. The EU cannot be reformed; it can only be abolished and completely dismantled.

An unresolved question is how the dissolution of the EU will take place, if it does. Ideally, the common people should rise up against the small elite that has usurped power and is grossly abusing this power. At the moment it seems probable that economic tensions stemming from a badly constructed union could ultimately fuel the demise of the EU. The final outcome remains to be seen.

In terms of money and largely unchecked and unaccountable power, however, it seems unlikely whether the ruling EU elites will give up their lucrative positions without putting up some sort of resistance.

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26 thoughts on “Why the European Union Must Be Abolished

    • That would make sense if you could also decapitate the hydra-headed monster spread out through formerly sovereign states. However, no one *ever* willingly gives up power…the constituent states would probably have to beggar themselves to buy their way out.

      But since (1) the economic future of the whole world, including China, is so uncertain, and (2) since the global demographic implosion that is set to happen (or begin) ~2050 has so many attendant unknown unknowns waiting to let loose the dogs of chaos and want, it’s hard to say which polities will survive. One thing is sure: none will come out the other end in their current incarnation.

      • In fact, anyone who knows the ancient borders that existed well before the world wars of the 20th century could better predict what may eventuate. If there is anything “eternal” in our collective mind it is the memory of those timeless borders…it is the disputes about those which are likely to emerge again.

        Those who know well the history of geography will be in a position to make shrewd adjustments.

  1. Baron,

    Very interesting essay. The EU could also be the result of a peaceful Europe, not actually the cause, so the organisation’s politics could indeed be counter-productive to peace and prosperity in the Continent.
    Europe’s political elites seemed determined to re-create the Roman Empire (a project that’s 1500 years old) at any cost, what other explanations are there for the proposed inclusion of Turkey or the even more hare-brained idea of incorporating the rest of the Mediterranean countries?

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  3. Brav0! Mr fjordman

    Yes, the eu is over now! Since long time, and we need, like in ukraine the people out on the streets, [redacted] and all, barricades manned, and the eu buildings and offices [intemperate suggestions redacted] in brussels and all other outposts where this deadly totalitarian nazi marxist jackboot ideology has got outlets!
    The eu is dead! Finnito! Game over!

    Mr barroso are you listening? Clean the wax out of your ears mr barroso you commie marxist [uncivil modifiers] portuguese [epithets]!!

    Your time is finnished!!!!

    Ashton you are also to be [intemperate suggestion redacted], along with all marxist traitors that inhabit the hallways and rooms of eu headquarters,

    The eussr is finnished, we need just to [confront] them now and they will run for their lives into the night .

    Lets get it on now!!!

    Sobieski _99

  4. Unless national borders are re-established, the citizens of EU member states no longer have any obligation at all to pay taxes.

    What is so magic about national borders, and how do they equate “any obligation at all to pay taxes”?
    After the realization of there being no such obligation on a global or EU scale, would it not be logical to apply the same principle to national, state or any other scale?

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  6. Once taxpayer funded bureaucracies are created and invested with a set purpose there is only ever one direction they move in: more personnel, increased funding, greater powers & an ever enlarging and more autonomous role for themselves.

    The EU represents this ugly phenomenon writ huge. From the sensible idea of a free trade zone it has morphed over the decades into a leviathan. Has anybody sat down and calculated the annual direct funding cost of the EU? And then endeavoured to quantify the economic advantages? Ones that accrue over and above a European Free Trade Zone?

    Whenever I hear of “Baroness” Catherine Ashton, I shudder at the sheer incomprehensibility of such a person ever achieving such an absurdly well remunerated & influential position. It could only happen in a aberration such as the EU. At best she is an utter mediocrity thoroughly undeserving on any merit-based assessment of any senior role in anything, at worst someone who should have been jailed for treason whilst she was Finance Director of the Soviet-funded Committee for Nuclear Disarmament: an organisation dedicated to militarily weakening the Western world in order to assist the supremacist goals of the Soviet Union. Yet Ashton is the EU’s “Foreign Minister” despite having never been elected to any high political office in her native UK. This isn’t being “sexist” as I understand that her predecessor, Rompuy, was a similarly undistinguished nincompoop. Recently I read that Ashton is encouraging Syrian women to play an active role in bringing about the cessation of civil war in that fractious cesspit. (Yeah right, that’s gonna happen!) Imagine paying for a polity whose Foreign Minister makes that level of contribution to the discourse in relation to such a complex geopolitical problem? It says all you really need to know about the superfluousness and vacuity of the EU as a world player.

    The EU will crumble when The Netherlands under Wilders opts out, maybe Denmark and/or Ireland follow and then the Germans follow suit – without the latter it is financially unsustainable.

  7. The EU is part of the greater agenda, or Agenda 21 one world government project that has been underway for years now.

    There is evidence to blame many groups and people, though many differing types are involved in this great deceit that is paving the way for totalitarianism unforeseen.

    Switch of the tv and get out and fight for what you once had.

    That’s the trouble people are too comfortable with their 42″ LED 3D TV’S , Trash celeb gossip, Match of the day, MTV cribs and X factor, Buckets of fried crap and Smartphones to notice the changes.

    • Funny, that’s exactly what has been taking place in Serbia, drum roll for TV Pink, mindless TV reality so that people gossip only about mindless stuff. The modern equivalent to the Roman bread and circus.

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  9. The EU is just a thinly veiled attempt to recreate a new Soviet Union. Its economic policies are clearly Marxist (stupid, ineffective, and doomed to failure) and its immigration tactics are pure CULTURAL Marxism – the destruction of all white nations via massive 3rd world immigration. One would think that Europeans would eventually get tired of riots, burned cars, rapes, murders, being called racists incessantly, and mosques on every corner and see through this idiotic nonsense before a whole civilization marches off a cliff. Multi-cultural Utopia? Forget it!

  10. Fjordman, as usual, sees the problem clearly. He emphasizes the EU’s absence of reform and the desirability/necessity to abolish it. But he does not predict either. He is a connoisseur of history and knows only too well that the Holy Roman Empire (“neither holy nor Roman nor an empire”) and its flaky, decentralized, authoritarian successor (“never won a battle and never lost a marriage”)–the Habsburg Empire–lasted between them from Otto’s coronation in 962 to circa 1914 and the outbreak of WWI. They were centuries-long, grand experiments in conglomerate, multi-ethnic, political structures. And they fell apart on their own schedule.

    Can the product of comparatively recent collaboration between Konrad Adenauer and Jean Monnet be any less significant and (God forbid!) long-lasting than the results of Charlemagne’s trip south to be blessed by Pope Leo? Remember Metternich?

    I wonder if the Imperial Diet had a Nigel Farage?

  11. This is all wrong. Fjordman should understand better than most that the EU is not the source of all our problems; he is from Norway, possibly the most feminized, homosexualized, xenophilic and politically correct nation on Earth. Norway is *not* an EU member, so the bloated bureaucracy in Brussels can’t even marginally be blamed for Norway’s present state of affairs. Norway’s elite are entirely responsible for the browning of Oslo, not the EU.

    Actually the ‘bloated bureaucracy in Brussels’ is another myth. It’s positively tiny compared to the behemoth in Washington DC, and much smaller on a per capita basis than any national government in Europe. And in many ways it is also more democratic than the nation-states contained within it.

    The free movement of goods and people throughout the EU has led to a general prosperity never before experienced in all of European history, providing a standard of living equal or superior to any other place in the world today. Does anyone seriously doubt this? Yes, there may be problems with gypsies and Muslims from the Balkans moving to Northwest European countries, but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the REAL problem: mass Third World immigration. Which has been facilitated 100% by the nation-states of Europe, not the EU.

    France and the UK started importing hundreds of thousands of Africans and Asians from their former empires long before they joined the EU. The Germans imported their entire Turkish population without any help or even input from Brussels. It was the British Labour Party who drastically ramped up immigration in the 1997-2010 period, not the phantom bureaucrats of Brussels. And it was the chinless wonder Zapatero in Spain who invited in huge numbers of Africans, Arabs and Latin Americans. The EU had nothing to do with that outrage either.

    The euro hasn’t been a ‘bad idea’, it’s facilitated trade, maintained its value, and is second only to the USD as a reserve currency. One day I believe it will surpass the USD as the world’s primary reserve currency. And while some of the spendthrift countries in Southern Europe are now suffering under Teutonic-imposed austerity, particularly Greece and Spain, most countries in Northern and Eastern Europe are doing just fine economically, thank you very much.

    The elections to the EU Parliament are coming up this May. The anti-immigration and anti-Islamization parties will almost certainly win in excess of 100 seats out of 751. Hopefully far in excess. In at least 4 countries, the UK, France, Netherlands and Austria, the ‘right-wing extremist’ parties will probably come in first place. UKIP currently has no seats in the Westminster Parliament, while the Front National has only one or two in its French equivalent. Yet both of these parties will end up taking 20-25% of their respective nations’ seats in the EU elections because they are based on proportionality rather than the first-past-the-post systems that shut them out at home. Germany’s soft nationalist AfD party has no seats in the Bundestag, but because of a lower threshold in the EU elections they will probably win a bunch of seats.

    With all due respect to Fjordman, his analysis has it exactly backwards. The bad guys are the nation-states like Britain, France and the rest. It is they who are entirely responsible for the Third World immigration invasion of Europe. It is they who supress the patriots who want to keep Europe white. It’s the nation-states who need to have their powers circumscribed because it is they who have proven over and over again that they have nothing but contempt for their indigenous populations.

    This is not to say that the EU are necessarily the ‘good guys’. But the EU, unlike the archaic nation-states, is a relatively new and flexible institution. And when a huge phalanx of right-wing patriots take their seats in the EU Parliament (along with an even bigger bloc of conservative sympathizers) following the upcoming elections, then they can push for a more democratic EU, based on the Swiss model, and–above all–push for an end to non-European immigration.

    One more thing. The EU must exist as a counterweight to the overweening power of the Anti-White Empire. You know what I’m talking about: Mexico Norte, Black Run America, Israel’s ATM, etc. The formerly great country known as the United States. The EU must eventually supplant the US as the undisputed leader of the West, because US power and influence is the biggest anti-white force in the world today. The real Soviet-style evil empire is not the EU, but the US, and the quickest way to cut it down in size is to build up a powerful, pro-white EU in opposition to it.

    Conservatives and patriots need to rethink their kneejerk opposition to the EU and their delusional defense of the traitorious nation-states. This article is a good start:

    http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/nation-states-european-union-occident-2-3

    • A huge pile of uninformed cr.. rambling.

      Fjordman never claimed that the EU is the source of all our problems. Read this essay: https://gatesofvienna.net/2011/06/when-treason-becomes-the-norm-why-the-proposition-nation-not-islam-is-our-primary-enemy/
      Norway is not an EU member, but is an EEC member, activating new EU laws, rules and regulations faster and with more zeal than most (possibly all) full members.
      The real prosperity in Europe came about because of industrial developments and increasingly stronger free trade between the nations. None of that depend on a EU seeking statehood and a political union among its members. A large part of the so-called prosperity is financed by inflation and debts, by states trying to finance a so-called welfare society, in fact a huge Ponzi-scheme or pyramid game, which will have to be financed or dismounted at great cost by future generations.
      It is rather obvious that a fiat currency backed by 20+ states containing half a billion+ persons, maintains it’s value better than currencies backed by only one poorly administered currency in a far smaller single coutry. But if you want really stable money, independent of the whims of politicians, the way to do that is to back them with real value, not by forcing ever more taxpayers into a ponzi-scheme. The Euro is exactly the same as the Italian Lira or Greek Drachma used to be, with the same inherent problems, only on a bigger scale.

      No, your fantasy about socialism will not work, whether you name it national socialism or social democracy, it still has the same totally unworkable economic fallacies at it’s base.

    • https://gatesofvienna.net/
      https://gatesofvienna.net/2014/02/why-the-european-union-must-be-abolished/#comment-204133
      It becomes moot who did what, or who came from where, as the Lisbon treaty ‘harmonises’ immigration policies across Europe.Besides all those advocating mass immigration were or are pro-EU.

      Anyway this is about democracy .
      Race and Islam are incidental to the architects of the EU,one Network of European Foundations report sees Islam as a ‘mere pawn’, a ‘transitional object’ to aid pluralisation.
      Divide and conquer in other words.

      The EU parliament can’t even legislate.
      In the EU laws are made without any democratic oversight whatsoever, as Daniel Guéguen says the minor bureaucrat is the master of the EU.
      http://www.ksap.gov.pl/ksap/file/publikacje/Hijacking_Comitology.pdf
      It is an opaque system of favour and cronyism,that has even pro-EU seriously worried;
      http://www.eurallfree.org/?q=node/743

      I just wonder whether there can be meaningful reform in an organisation designed to be undemocratic and based on a big lie of we’re only joining a common market .
      Where the idea that ‘democracy makes too many mistakes’ suffuses their thinking.
      Brussels might have fewer bureaucrats than Washington but it competes in numbers of lobbyists;
      “The complex, often unaccountable EU decision-making procedures and the lack of a truly European public debate make Brussels into a paradise for corporate lobbyists.”
      http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2951

      “The EU must exist as a counterweight to the overweening power of the Anti-White Empire.”
      I don’t know what you mean,the EU is offering Turkey and 15 MENA countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy the possibility of the four freedoms in exchange for reform.It has migration missions to sub-saharan Africa etc etc
      EU policy reports make suggestions that 100-200 million more immigrants from Africa and Asia are required to ‘solve’ the pension problem.
      We need National governments to protect us from unelected,unaccountable kommisioners and ideologues making deals in the shadows, that have profound implications for Europe’s future but over which, the peoples of Europe have had little say.
      Down with the EU
      Vive l’Europe.

    • https://gatesofvienna.net/
      https://gatesofvienna.net/2014/02/why-the-european-union-must-be-abolished/#comment-204133
      It becomes moot who did what, or who came from where, as the Lisbon treaty ‘harmonises’ immigration policies across Europe.Besides all those advocating mass immigration were or are pro-EU.

      Anyway this is about democracy .
      Race and Islam are incidental to the architects of the EU,one Network of European Foundations report sees Islam as a ‘mere pawn’, a ‘transitional object’ to aid pluralisation.
      Divide and conquer in other words.

      The EU parliament can’t even legislate.
      In the EU laws are made without any democratic oversight whatsoever, as Daniel Guéguen says the minor bureaucrat is the master of the EU.
      http://www.ksap.gov.pl/ksap/file/publikacje/Hijacking_Comitology.pdf
      It is an opaque system of favour and cronyism,that has even pro-EU seriously worried;
      http://www.eurallfree.org/?q=node/743

      I just wonder whether there can be meaningful reform in an organisation designed to be undemocratic and based on a big lie of we’re only joining a common market .
      Where the idea that ‘democracy makes too many mistakes’ suffuses their thinking.
      Brussels might have fewer bureaucrats than Washington but it competes in numbers of lobbyists;
      “The complex, often unaccountable EU decision-making procedures and the lack of a truly European public debate make Brussels into a paradise for corporate lobbyists.”
      http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2951

      “The EU must exist as a counterweight to the overweening power of the Anti-White Empire.”
      I don’t know what you mean,the EU is offering Turkey and 15 MENA countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy the possibility of the four freedoms in exchange for reform.It has migration missions to sub-Saharan Africa etc etc

      We need National governments to protect us from unelected,unaccountable kommisioners and idealogues,making deals in the shadows that have profound implications for Europe’s future but over which, the peoples of Europe have had little say.
      Down with the EU
      Vive l’Europe.

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  13. The illogical formation of Europe with a single currency was something I read in 1997.
    A single currency throughout Europe has resulted in a disaster as predicted.
    Furthermore the Brussels bureaucratic Stalinists have been shown to be parasitic morons!

  14. Baron, I would make a donation to Fjordman if the Paypal site were in English. I can’t possibly handle money in a language that I can’t understand.

    Please remain safe, we desperately need your essays.

    Robert.

    • Robert —

      Fjordman and I tried to figure out how to switch his widget from Norwegian to English, and we just couldn’t do it — it was determined to stay in Norwegian. There was no visible setting where we could specify the language.

      I wish I knew of a solution, but I haven’t found one.

      • Well, guys, Google is your friend in this case. A currency comparison so you’ll know how much you’re giving:

        http://themoneyconverter.com/USD/NOK.aspx

        That’s between dollars and kroner, but if you’re doing Euros it should have a page for that.

        And if his PayPal page is in Norwegian, try rolling it through Google’s Translate page.

        Since I doubt Norwegians are lining up to donate, perhaps he could switch over to a page in English. I don’t know how that is done, but PayPal does.

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