Europe
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| Overtook Asia as richest continent in the 1400s. Was the location of two World Wars in the 1900s signalling its infighting and economic decline. The federalisation of the Europe politically in the European Union to solve the decline along with the influence of NATO has caused concerns over its future. Immigration to Europe has become a weapon used in deep lobbying and deep politics since the 2000s. |
Europe is a peninsular on the Western side of Eurasia. It is widely regarded as a continent.
EU
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.
The union has a total area of 4,233,255.3 km2 (1,634,469.0 sq mi) with an estimated population of about 447 million (5.8% of the world population in 2020). The EU generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around 17.1 trillion USD in 2021, constituting approximately 18 per cent of global nominal GDP.
Government
- Full article: European Commission
- Full article: European Commission
The EU is ruled by its executive branch, the European Commission. It also has a European Parliament with 705 members (MEPs). The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union. It is composed of the heads of state or government of the EU member states, in summits held at least twice every six months.
Criticism
On the one hand, the European Union suspended Austria when its citizens voted for people it didn’t like. On the other hand, the EU has failed to react to the Rajoy government’s tactics in responding to the Catalonian crisis. This is not to claim that the EU was wrong in each of these cases. It merely shows that the EU is experiencing a serious identity crisis. It simply cannot make up its mind whether it is to:
- (a) become a mere confederation;
- (b) become a federation;
- (c) recast itself as an inter-governmental organisation on the lines of the Council of Europe;
- (d) muddle along as "neither fish nor fowl"; or,
- (e) disappear under the weight of its inherent contradictions.
Take your pick![1]
Legal Problems of the European Constitution
From the very beginning the construction of an European super-bureaucracy faced legal problems: core agreements like the "economic stability criteria" have been broken frequently and permanently by the majority of member states.
The precursor of the Lisbon Treaty (13 December 2007), the Treaty of Maastricht has been rejected by the citizens' vote of many European countries. After that the European Parliament was set up without questioning the people further. The European Parliament is notoriously weak and has only a veto power over laws passed within a short timeframe. European law overrules national law but the people of the member states are not represented proportionally in the European Parliament. This conflicts with many national constitutions. The Maastricht Treaty has been challenged therefore before the highest courts of Member States as well as the European Court of Justice, among others by German professor of international law Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider.[2]
Of particular concern are the paragraphs dealing with martial law or "emergency situations" and the re-introduction of the death penalty. The contents of the treaties are not discussed in the commercially-controlled media and there is no awareness of the far-reaching consequences in the general public. The contracts are packed with footnotes and references to previous treaties and legal acts, which makes them hard to understand even for insiders of international law. A survey showed that less than 20 percent of German MPs actually read the Lisbon Treaty before giving the go-ahead to their own disempowerment.
Deep state
- Full article: Europe/Deep state
- Full article: Europe/Deep state
The European deep state (EU/DS) is a major component of the supranational deep state. While the continent of Europe has hosted many important deep state milieux over the centuries, the EU/DS only really took shape as such after World War II, with the establishment of the continent wide Gladio network. Józef Retinger's Bilderberg Group oversaw the project to formally eclipse national sovereignty under a pan-European legal superstructure while Le Cercle's activities included the subversion of democratic European governments and the installation of puppet leaders.[3]
Inaction about Gladio
On November 22, 1990 the European Parliament debated Operation Gladio, producing a strongly worded resolution calling for an investigation. However, this was never followed through. Summarising the procedure, Daniele Ganser writes that "The dog barked loudly, but it did not bite. Of the eight actions requested by the EU parliament not one was carried out satisfactorily. Only Belgium, Italy and Switzerland investigated their secret armies with a parliamentary commission, producing a lengthy and detailed public report."[4]
2020s
Resurgence of "extreme right"
The halting of Russian imports by NATO countries due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine helped several right wing political parties win significant control of the narrative all over Europe. Russian President Putin was depicted in 2023 as "waiting for Ukrainian aid to stop when Donald Trump would be elected".[5]
References
- ↑ "Facebook post shared by Walter Cairns"
- ↑ http://www.kaschachtschneider.de/en/downloads.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Albrecht_Schachtschneider&oldid=586973103
- ↑ The Langemann Papers
- ↑ Daniele Ganser, pp. 23–24
- ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/bolton-putin-waiting-for-trump-to-withdraw-from-nato-in-2nd-term-2022-3?international=true&r=US&IR=T