Politicians are the new clergy then. You're not wrong.
The EU isn't a democracy, it is actually governed by backroom deals between member states' governments.
Certain state level actors would love some more anti EU sentiments right now.
On the other side, who the hell would pay for pro EU propaganda?
The EU, countries governed by pro-EU governments.
> Certain state level actors would love some more anti EU sentiments right now.
Why? What means do they have to produce it?
And no, whatever the US or the EU do, it is not the same.
No one - the EU gets its money from force: taxes on citizens and fines from companies created in more entrepreneurial environments than the EU can produce.
1% of VAT goes to the EU, yes.
> fines from companies created in more entrepreneurial environments than the EU can produce.
Mostly the ones that have actually been imposed (on GDPR) go to the national governments.
I have no problem with it. I would even argue that the EU is under funded.
I completely agree with you, the EU is definitely under-funded (but I get that the national governments don't want to share tax revenue).
Not really. Like, the EU only has the powers given to it by national governments, 1% of VAT is probably too low tbh as there's a bunch of stuff that would be better solved at EU level. The politics around that are pretty tricky though.
EU is great at creating anti EU sentiments. They don't need foreign actors. Chat Control is just one example.
https://profdenoli.substack.com/p/an-essay-on-eus-dsa-censor...
This in turn is leading to fascism rising here as it has in the US. Like AfD in Germany , PVV in Nederlands, Front National in France. This is not a good thing IMO. We need buttons to be able to push to disconnect from that when it gets too bad.
So I don't think this is a bad thing. Though Thierry Breton was a stooge who was mainly interested in promoting his befriended French tech companies yes. Still, even bad people can produce ok things sometimes.
> This in turn is leading to fascism rising here as it has in the US. Like AfD in Germany , PVV in Nederlands, Front National in France.
These parties are gaining momentum because the parties in power are completely ignoring the will of the people and are cheerfully destroying Europe as we know it.
This doesn't work. As an example the toilet BS. So many times I've tried to explain that that is such an unimaginable scenario that it's completely unrealistic, let alone warrant the amount of anger against the community. But people don't care. They love being angry at someone, they revel in it. They don't want to know facts, they want to be angry and rile against something.
The same with the migrant thing. They're blamed for everything that's wrong in society. Even though these things are actually the result of decades of externalisation to the poorest in society, driven by right-wing pro-corporate policies. They try to convert that into even more right-wing votes.
> These parties are gaining momentum because the parties in power are completely ignoring the will of the people and are cheerfully destroying Europe as we know it.
It's not the will of the people but of a small group of tiktok influencers that are riling the people up without any actual facts.
It's the same in the US, it's not about facts anymore. Most of the things Trump says are provably false. Yet his followers worship him. It's become a religion. You can't fight that with facts. Nor does this 'will of the people' originate with the actual people. Nobody wakes up and thinks "Hey let's cut healthcare today", "Hey, let's hate on all the gay people that never harmed anyone". They're slowly manipulated into it.
What we have to do is stop the algorithms that try to maximise 'engagement' with hate. And the dark forces that publish all this misinformation.
Europe is losing its safety and identity in pursue of "diversity". The immigrants refuse to integrate and instead bring their work ethic, religions and habits that made their own countries shitholes they are desperate to leave. European people naturally do not want this. What do the right-wing parties have in common? They are strictly against immigration. They will gain more and more support as long as nothing changes and rightfully so.
And we had crime before we had immigrants. It's a feature of social economic status not ethnicity. Before we had the Moroccan gangs in Amsterdam we had the local Mafia which was just as bad.
I do think immigrants without a permit should be evicted but the problem is that many countries like Morocco refuse to take them back.
And yes I live in a major EU city. The drug problem isn't as bad as you describe. And it's more a result of police budget cutting than immigration.
And of course the fact that her husband was working for a Pfizer supplier, while she was sending private SMS to the Pfizer CEO, is of course an incredible coincidence.
And also the current NATO Secretary...
"Dutch PM has been deleting text messages daily for years" - https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/18/dutch-pm-deleting-text-message...
Now, consider, why should this one be excempt.
Foreign intelligence knows what's there, but local people don't.
> All communication in the Government Offices is based on the core values of transparency, factualness and comprehensibility, relevance and topicality. Public access and oversight shall characterise all activities.
> The Government Offices' communication policy covers both internal and external communication.
Sweden is generally pretty good at transparency, both regarding representatives and everyone else. For example, given a full name, you can get a person's address, telephone number, what cars and businesses they own, and even what their salary is, for better and worse :)
Anyway, that has to do with integration issues, not public data so you guys are way off topic.
It's a non-issue though. Americans seem super paranoid about this stuff, and yet when everything is public nothing bad happens.
> Or such a restrictive one.
err?
It's a non-issue though. Americans seem super paranoid about this stuff, and yet when everything is public nothing bad happens.
> Or such a restrictive one.
Err? In what way? Compared to what?