A Europe designed to bring nations together and prevent war has engendered hatred and war. The war conducted against Yugoslavia by Germany the EU and the USA and the deaths and ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands is well known. The almost exact reproduction of the process in the Ukraine (German Intelligence operatives and political foundations active for decades, the USA aided by George Soros spending billions undermining a stable government, the awakening of nationalistic gangs of Nazi origin and the attack on anti-fascists calling them “Nazis”) is now well under way, threatening not just a cold war but a real war.
As the Washington and Berlin organised putsch against the Kiev Government reached its height three EU foreign ministers ordered the elected Ukrainian government to leave. Poland’s foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, was even caught on video warning the opposition politicians that if they didn’t sign up to the deal ‘You’ll all be dead’.
So aggressive and imperialistic have NATO and the EU become that the hatred shown towards it within is equally reflected in the view from without:
“The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes” (President Gorbachev)
“I have lived in your future ….and it doesn’t work”
(Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky on the EU)
The continuing mutual hatred of European Governments, politicians and EU bureaucrats is perhaps less well known – although it is daily a matter of record. If we needed proof of the evils of the European Union beyond its financial social and economic collapse and its destruction of parliaments and national democracies then these expressions of mutual hatred by Europeans are the final coup de grace!
No country has suffered more than Greece from the arrogant and ignorant exercise of political and economic power by Germany and the EU and so it comes as no surprise that we heard from the former Greek minister of economics N. Christodoulakis in a letter of September 13th 2013 to Angela Merkel the German Chancellor that:
“You eventually succumbed to the vulgar German populism that has always searched for nation-victims in order to justify its “superiority”. With contempt for history, just to win a few more votes, you adopted the inarticulate cries of the extreme Right and the extreme Left”
The Greek economic journal O Kosmos tou Ependiti wrote that Greeks were “the victims of a pan European putsch” and of course the Greek Government continues to sue Germany for reparations for its murderous occupation and desecration of Greece during the Second World War.
The principal financial claim by Greece against Germany by the way is today’s value of the debt which the Nazi occupiers forced the Greeks to take on to pay for their own occupation! How exactly that is reprised today in Greece’s horrendous Euro 240,000m debt taken on to remain in the Euro!
Greece has formed a special committee at the state accounting office to investigate the loan that Greece was forced at gunpoint to offer Germany during the 1941 – 1944 German occupation. To this Wolfgang Schaeuble retorted
“I consider these comments irresponsible. Much more important than misleading people with such stories would be to explain and spell out the reform path. Greece still has a longer way ahead. One should not divert attention from that”.
The Italians also have outstanding legal cases against Germany for massacres carried out during the war and they see in the modern European Union a process of similar conquest, as the newspaper La Republica commented:
“the way Germany is manipulating the EU is more and more unsettling”. “The Germans are dominating everything”
And yet the Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti whose spell as a European Commissioner between 1995 and 2004 is closer to his heart (and his pocket given his EU pension) than his homeland said of the UK:
“In Europe there are some people who feel their heart would be lighter if the UK left the EU”
The French Prime Minister Michel Rocard wrote in Le Monde, reflecting the petulance of all failures when confronted by those who warned them they would fail:
“You [Britons] don’t like Europe. It is your right, and it is understandable…Leave before you destroy everything. There was a time when elegance and British were synonyms. Let us re-build Europe. Regain your elegance, and you will regain our respect too.”
“Berlin declares France as a problematic case” Handelsblatt reported on a working paper prepared by German Economy Minister Rösler’s cabinet. The paper lists a number of French problems, including; “strongly increased costs of labour”, the “second lowest annual working time” in the EU and the “highest tax burden in the eurozone”. The newspaper notes that “the love affair” between Germany and France “is over”.
The German popular newspaper, Bild Zeitung (online) referred to a forthcoming visit to Berlin by French President Francois Hollande. It has all the superior German arrogance which Europeans had thought a thing of the past.
‘The sick man of Europe visits Merkel. French Problem Child meets German Wunderkind”
Germany can also fall out badly with its own Eurocrats. The German CDU/CSU faction’s spokesman for interior policy, Hans-Peter Uhl, called the European Commission’s alleged claim that immigration from countries such as Bulgaria or Romania does not burden the German welfare state “an outrageous denial of reality” and a “first-class frivolity.” He added that some Commissioners are as far removed from reality “as the moon from the earth”.
In Hungary the Government, with massive support from the electorate angrily rejects the interventions of Brussels and Berlin:
“Hungarians think debate is based on a sober, matter-of-fact, the-other-person-may-be-right logic, but the European Parliament is not a European place. Facts are secondary.”
Mrs Merkel, said she
“would do everything to put Hungary in the right direction, but we won’t be sending in the cavalry straight away.”
The Hungarian leader Viktor Orban in his response brought up the Second World War.
“The Germans have already sent cavalry to Hungary: they came in form of tanks,” said the prime minister in a radio interview on Friday. “Our request is that they don’t send any. It didn’t work out.”
Despite being one of the favourite lapdogs of German EU policy – look how such a corrupt corporatist as Jean Claude Juncker became EU president – Luxembourg’s foreign minister said not long ago that Berlin is
“striving for a hegemony which is wrong and un-European”.
Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told Reuters that
“Germany does not have the right to decide on the business model for other countries in the EU. It must not be the case that countries are quietly choked, while using financially technical issues as a cover”.
As the mediterranean countries in the Euro have collapsed, to the complete indifference of the German political class, the responses of other countries have grown in anger. A commentator in the Spanish daily El Pais went the furthest.
“Like Hitler, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared war on the rest of Europe to secure their economic living space.”
The piece was quickly withdrawn (censorship, especially by the BBC, of the uprising against the European Union hegemony has been common for years) but the damage had been done. In Britain, commentators across the political spectrum have lined up to criticise Germany. The British left wing New Statesman recently labelled Merkel “the biggest threat to global order and prosperity” – ahead of notorious dictators such as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
Peer Steinbrück, the SPD’s candidate for chancellor in the 2013 German elections, said that the electoral success of Beppe Grillo and Silvio Berlusconi was that “two clowns have won”.
Although today it is Greece whom Germany would undoubtedly like to force from the Euro not long ago it was Italy in their sights! with Der Spiegel dismissing their complaints as:
‘a childlike refusal to acknowledge reality’ and ‘Italians are unable or unwilling to grasp the depth of their economic plight’
Whereas of course the Italians are all too aware of the economic collapse and social indignities which German Europe’s policies have inflicted on them.
In the run up to a visit by Chancellor Merkel to another part of her bankrupt empire, Portugal, an open letter appeared on the front page of “I Informacao” signed by 100 Portuguese academics arguing that:
“The German Chancellor has to be considered persona non grata in Portuguese territory”
Welcome to the peaceful, friendly Europe of the 21st century!
