Oh boy oh boy a new EU institution
The human rights commissioner for the intergovernmental Council of Europe CoE has announced that the European Union’s racism and xenophobia monitoring center will now be turned into a human rights agency provided, of course, that the various other EU human rights agencies and humanitarian missions under supervision of the European Commission and the Council of Europe, being signatures of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and not to mention the European Court of Human Rights, can all come together and agree upon this unanimously as stipulated in the various human rights clauses of thirty or forty EU treaties (could be more we’re not sure) that all of these governmental and judicial bodies must adhere to.
Say that ten times really fast.
“CoE spokesmen have said their organization already suffers from the public often mistaking it for other EU bodies, such as the European Council and the European Parliament. A European Union human rights agency would just add to the confusion, they said.”
Confusion? What confusion? Nobody even pretends to have the slightest idea of what the hell is going on there anymore.
But some people believe that the addition of yet another institution to the already over-bloated and over-duplicated European Union bureaucracy will make things run more smoothly and efficiently. But, then again, some people also believe that monkeys sometimes fly out of the Easter Bunny’s butt.
Die EU? Das ist dieses Dingsda in New York, oder?
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The first time in human history a growing group of entirely souvereign nations/states with different languages, histories, mentalities work seriously on becoming an unity. This is something great, much greater than anything an American (and most Europeans too) can think on (obviously). This is practised cosmopolitism on national level. Nations are willing to give up autonomy for a higher form of organisation.
Standing beside this and running it down is so ... well, name it yourself. (Comment this)
It's amazing what kind of paperwork it takes these days to keep an entire continent in the grip of a massive, unelected, supernational metagovernment that doesn't even have a real constitution to keep it in line, much less an external judiciary dedicated to maintaining checks and balances.
But the important thing is that there's a higher form of organization, right? You know, keep those trains running on time... (Comment this)
The best thing about the EU I can think of is, that germany is its biggest country. This brings a number of good consequences.
For example, the biggest country in such a union always plays the biggest role. This has been different for germany for a long time after the war - but since reunification and especially during the last few years, we are coming back on track. Its like we finally start pursueing our own interests again and dont only worry about our neighbours.
Now the free market is also a point we profit most. Sure, it makes the export of low-skilled work away from germany easier. But thats something we shouldnt rely on anyway. Within the greatest national market though, in average also the greatest companies arise in most sectors. So when the national market borders fall, our companies are in the strongest starting position. This way, we can increase our influence even further.
As soon as this merging effect takes place in the defense industries, this gives our arming companies another boost.
And last but not least, under the name of european union, we are totally free to pursue our interests without being reminded of our history all the time, which probably reliefs our foreign policy of a heavy burden from the past.
So - I like the EU :) (Comment this)