Van Rompuy scoate un chiot de luptă

Preşedintele Consiliului European Herman Van Rompuy a lansat un avertisment ferm cu privire la creşterea naţionalismului, a populismului şi a forţelor anti-democratice în Uniunea Europeană. „Trebuie să luptăm împotriva pericolului unui nou euro-scepticism”, a spus Van Rompuy într-un discurs rostit la Berlin, adăugînd că atitudinea antieuropeană nu mai e monopolul cîtorva ţări - în fiecare stat membru al Uniunii există oameni care cred că pot supravieţui singuri într-o lume globalizată. „Asta e mai mult decît o iluzie, e o minciună”, a spus Vam Rompuy.

Preşedintele Consiliului European a făcut aceste declaraţii cu ocazia aşa-numitei Schicksalstag, care se celebrează pe 9 noiembrie şi e aniversarea a cinci evenimente importante din istoria Germaniei care au avut loc toate pe 9 noiembrie: căderea zidului Berlinului în 1989, căderea monarhiei în 1918, puciul de la berăria din Muenchen din 1923, pogromul cunoscut sub numele de Noaptea de Cristal din 1938 şi executarea unuia din liderii revoluţiilor care au avut loc în landurile germane la 1848.

Citîndu-l pe fostul preşedinte al Statelor Unite Franklin Roosevelt, Herman Van Rompuy a spus că „cel mai mare duşman al Europei este astăzi frica”, şi că asta duce la război în cele din urmă. „Frica duce la egoism, egoismul duce la naţionalism, şi naţionalismul duce la război. Naţionalismul zilelor noastre nu e întotdeauna sentimentul pozitiv de mîndrie legat de identitatea cuiva, ci sentimentul negativ de teamă de ceilalţi, teama de duşmani în interiorul graniţelor noastre, şi în afara lor. Este un sentiment în toată Europa, nu al unei majorităţi, dar prezent peste tot”. [...]

Radio Europa Liberă - Pericolul unui nou euro-scepticism 

 

Van Rompuy: more dangerous than he looks

 

Shabby and secret dealings between member states last year made Herman Van Rompuy president of the European Council. At the time, he was mocked in Britain largely because he was unknown, mouse-like and, well, Belgian.

But last night in Berlin, Van Rompuy showed what he really is. And that is, a dangerous, cynical man who intends that all of Europe should be turned into a vast version of Belgium, an invented country called Europe where the loyal feelings and patriotism of the ancient nations are suppressed -- all replaced with a European nationalism.

Last night Van Rompuy gave a speech in which he condemned 'the danger of a new Euro-scepticism. This is no longer the monopoly of a few countries. In every member state, there are people who believe their country can survive alone in the globalised world. It is more than an illusion. It is a lie!' [Note, I can't think of any state in the world outside Burma and North Korea that imagines it can survive alone. What Van R is attacking is any country and any people who imagine they are equipped to run their own state without an undemocratic superstate being in control. Damn shocking, those Swiss.]

'The biggest enemy of Europe today is fear. Fear leads to egoism, egoism leads to nationalism and nationalism leads to war.'

'Today's nationalism is often not a positive feeling of pride in one's own identity, but a negative feeling of apprehension of others.'

Tripe. And I have to call it tripe, because in Brussels, 'nationalism' is not nationalism as we understand it. The word is used instead to mean any expression of rational self-interest by one country. It is used to mean any preference by any citizen for their own homeland or culture or political system over others.

Remember, the European Commission is the institution in which its employees are trained never to mention their own home countries if the word can possible be avoided -- British eurocrats are trained not to say Britain but to say only 'the country I know best.' This is why the EU has rigged up the idea of dividing Europe into 'regions' which ignore, indeed, erase, national boundaries. This is why, under law, we are all called 'citizens of the EU' now. It's not just a gesture, it's a fact, and cynical creatures such as Van Rompuy means we should all become 'citizens of the EU' in every sense.

WE can't say we weren't warned. The day after Van Rompuy was appointed, Paul Belien, a Flemish historian and lawyer, warned readers of the Mail that the newly powerful president of the council was a man 'devoid of patriotism and contemptuous of democracy.'

Belien has known and observed Van Rompuy since the mid-1980s. He called Van Rompuy 'a shrewd manipulator, he will do all in his power to further EU integration.'

'Van Rompuy is a product of the debased, corrupt political life of Belgium. Like the EU, it is an artificial construction, the result of political compromise and experiment.'

'Because of this lack of real nationhood, Belgians despise their own state. But this unpatriotic attitude is precisely the reason why Belgian politicians have been so enthusiastic about the EU, in which they see the mirror image of their own fraudulent, unprincipled country.'

Which is to say, Van Rompuy is precisely the man to lead the Belgianisation of Europe. Make no mistake, the EU is an empire with global ambitions. It was no mere gesture that in his acceptance speech as president of the council, Van Rompuy extolled 'global governance.' Pay the man the compliment of believing he means what he says. And then be prepared to treat him as the dangerous, cynical anti-patriot he is.

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