“There used to be two cinemas, but they both closed,” says Kasia, one of the remaining residents of Monki, a virtual ghost town with the distinction of having seen the highest number of its citizens depart to richer EU economies. “Everyone is going, everyone is leaving,” one of the owners of a faded electrical store in the centre of town, unchanged for decades, laments. “Only the disabled people stay – all the villages are empty.” And the young people decide to leave to get by in the big towns and work for big corporations.”
Thus the BBC reported in July this – nearly 25 years after the corporation supported the Maastricht Treaty which enshrined free movement of people across the border of the nation states of Europe. A few of us warned at the time, and repeatedly since, of the devastation of southern and Eastern EU countries which would result from this fatuous (economically unnecessary but politically targeted) policy of the eurofanatics.
If mass unemployment and migrations were necessary to break down the cultures and democracies of EU member states then that was a price worth paying for the “building of Europe”.
Today some 15 million EU “citizens” reside in a country other than their own, with all the personal financial, cultural and family disruption that entailed. The euro-elite on the Left welcomed the destruction of nations and bourgeois culture and cohesion. The Euro-elite on the corporatist right welcomed the availability of cheaper labour, cross border trade and the lobbying of only one technocratic elite, not 28 democratic governments!
LATVIA, LITHUANIA
With the young moving to seek work in the rest of the EU and Russians returning to Russia, Latvia and Lithuania lost respectively 8.3% and 11.3% of their people between 2015 and 2016. By 2016 about 1.9 million people lived in Latvia – one fifth less than in 1989. The Russian population in Latvia has halved since 1989. No wonder the Latvian Government has an advertising campaign to attract its own people back home!
SPAIN
Between 2013 and 2014 the Spanish population aged 15-39 has shrunk by 3.1%, or 477,851 individuals.
GREECE
Since the turn of the century (and the birth of the disastrous Euro) Greece has lost over 200,000 of its mainly young people. No wonder that Greece has the third lowest birth rate in the EU – 9 live births per 1,000, a rate it shares with the EU-bankrupted Italy.
POLAND
Since Poland joined the EU in 2004 its has lost more than two million of its citizens seeking higher wages and greater job opportunities in the West – principally in the UK (650,000) and Germany.
In 2015 the average monthly wage in Poland was the equivalent of 705 euros so the British average wage of 2,253 Euros was an inevitable attraction! In 2013 alone some 500,000 Poles emigrated.
Those who have followed the Freenations website know that with the free movement of goods, services and investment, the mass movement of people is totally unnecessary – but that the EU elitists had a different aim – not prosperity but nation destruction and so they added “free movement of people” as one of the “four freedoms”. This will be the main source of tension between the exiting UK and the other 27 member states.
Of course the ‘freedom to move’ rapidly becomes the obligation to move (if you work for a large employer) and then the desperation to move as the only way of finding a job.
Politicians were warned about the true meaning of the EU and its policies but they took no notice – and their peoples have suffered terribly as a result. The wandering young seeking jobs, the deserted homes in the southern and eastern EU member states, the disruption of the host countries as housing, hospitals, transport and public services become overburdened, local wages are driven down and the tension between migrants and indigenous populations grows. Normally tolerant and welcoming populations become intolerant. Normally decent migrants become aggressive.
But that is what happens when the new imperialists set out to create their superstate on the ashes of once free nations.
