By DG Ulrich
The President of European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, recently congratulated the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel for her 15 years in power and praised her for helping to make Europe stronger.
Of course, when Lagarde says Europe, she really means the European Union, and this is where I disagree with her sentiment. Contrary to what we have been taught to believe, the EU has not made Europe stronger. What it is, instead, is a bureaucratic monster that has eaten into our sovereignty and which creates more problems than it is able to handle.
The issuing of Eurobonds, which have been introduced with corona used as a convenient excuse for doing so, is a case in point. They will only increase our debt, which along with unfettered immigration and the totalitarian attitudes of Brussels are why the citizens of the UK voted to leave the EU. In my opinion, Brexit is inevitable and welcomed, and Germany should follow suit.
Nor has the EU united Europe. In fact, it has divided Europe, and I can see this from my many friends from East European countries who express dissatisfaction and ask me, why do we do handle things like we do? The problem is that these grievances are never reported because the media are selective on what they choose to report, and they are the ones with a pro-EU, liberal agenda.
The same can be said about our media in Germany, which is liberal and does not represent half the population. Because of that, they have fled into social media and take information from there. We need to bring those people back or take the media back to them.
The media coverage of Angela Merkel is a good example of this. In my opinion, she has not been making good decisions for Germany. And if you look beyond the media coverage, you will find her reign to be exhausting. If we react as she does by waiting for problems to be resolved by themselves, we will soon be unemployed.
However, back to the EU. In my opinion, the EU should be an economic association, which should work together on issues such as border management, defence, the fight against crime and epidemic prevention.
As things are though, all we have in the EU is panic mode. And I for one don’t like to put my fate into the hands of people who need more money to make up the shortfall when a member leaves, who announce big plans even though they are not even able to agree on uniform sockets, and who allow themselves to be blackmailed by truant children and blindly do things for the sake of doing things.
The European Union would not survive an independent audit.
