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Power Grab: The Noose Tightens On National Sovereignty in Europe
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com
When French and Dutch voters were given an opportunity to vote for the European constitution in 2005, which would have transferred considerable sovereignty from their countries to the European government and its unelected bureaucrats, they “unexpectedly” killed it. They wanted to hang on to their sovereignty. An unforgettable lesson for European politicians: don’t let the riffraff decide. Such matters are best handled by the elite—politicians, bankers, and unelected bureaucrats. And on Wednesday, they were busy handling such matters.
In the morning, Andreas Voßkuhle, President of the German Constitutional Court, announced that two of the main Eurozone survival strategies, the ESM bailout fund and the Fiscal Union treaty, would “most likely” not violate the constitution (press release, flash analysis). By rejecting the plaintiffs’ efforts to block the laws, the Court allowed Federal President Joachim Gauck to sign them; and they’d become binding international treaties.
Thus, the Court nodded with a stern smile on the transfer of sovereignty from parliament to unelected bureaucrats within the European Union government. For the fifth time—after waving through the EFSF bailout fund in 2011, the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, the introduction of the euro in 1998, and the Maastricht treaty in 1993. Each time, it added conditions that gave plaintiffs a pretext to proclaim victory and try again next time. True to form, Peter Gauweiler (CSU), one of the most vocal plaintiffs, called the decision a “giant success“ and “legal sensation”; the conditions would make it more difficult to turn “the ESM into a bottomless barrel,” he said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel slapped herself on the back, complemented the justices—”The Court goes the way that also guided me,” she said—thanked those who’d supported her, including the opposition SPD and Greens, and told the rest of the world that Germany was carrying its share of the load. Alas, in a poll last week, 54% of those who’d be carrying that load wanted the Court to stop the ESM and Fiscal Union treaty. Only 25% wanted the Court to wave them through.
And then the noose tightened further on national sovereignty in Europe, and particularly in the Eurozone. Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services, hammered home his plan to create a supranational banking supervisor with a bank bailout fund and a deposit insurance fund, under the ECB. It would not only cover the 25-30 systemically important Eurozone banks, the TBTF banks that could take down the world, or worse, presumably, but all 6,000 Eurozone banks, down to small savings banks. A centralized banking supervision would have to have the right to act “in any imaginable situation and in any bank,” he said, citing non-systemically important banks that had collapsed: Northern Rock, Bankia, and Dexia [read.... Belgians Get Cold Feet As Bailout Queen Dexia Drags Them Toward The Abyss].
The power grab hit resistance in Germany. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble only wants to put TBTF banks under centralized control. The Bundesbank, citing conflicts of interest, doesn’t think the ECB should become the regulator of banks it funds. And the Association of Savings Banks came out against allowing the ECB to supervise savings banks. It would use their contributions to prop up banks in debt-sinner countries and through that transfer make savings banks less secure. Also, tottering banks could go directly to the ECB to get their bailout funds, rather than the ESM, with all its irksome conditions and parliamentary votes. But resistance will be whittled down over time. And in the end, it won’t change the principle that bankers regulate bankers for the benefit of bankers.
Unelected European Commission President José Manuel Barroso chimed in with his state of the union speech to the European Parliament—not only calling for a centralized banking supervisory and bailout mechanism, but for a “quantum leap” in every other aspect of centralizing governance in Europe to form a “federation of nation states.” His grandiose plans weren’t just for the 17-member Eurozone but for the 27-member European Union, which includes the UK, whose people have been, how shall we say, reluctant to hand over sovereignty to European bureaucrats.
The European Commission would doctor up the plans, in coordination with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, another unelected honcho, and would present it to the European Parliament, an emasculated institution that cannot do what other parliaments can do, namely initiate legislation; it can only vote on legislation initiated by the Commission or the Council.
But there would be more democracy, Barroso promised, including an elected president. An incentive for all politicians in Europe to go along with the power grab. It would give them a higher level of government to move up to, one with more power. They all must be thinking about it, Merkel, Schäuble, French President François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy.... Well, on second thought, maybe not him.
France is mired in a stagnating economy. The private sector is under pressure, auto manufacturing in a depression, unemployment at a 13-year high. Youth unemployment is catastrophic in ghetto-like enclaves. Gasoline prices are near record highs. So there are a lot of very unhappy campers. And it could turn ugly. Read.... The French Government Gets Whacked, Even The Left Is Angry, And Hollande Gets Slapped In The Face.
The media are falling all over themselves to celebrate the German Constitutional Court's acquiescence to the ESM and the Fiscal Pact; the building blocks are now in place for the establishment of a "Federation of European States," European Commission President Barroso’s pipedream. The Euro debt crisis is finally resolved. But did the justices really give up the ghost? Read.... The German Constitutional Court Torpedoes The ECB’s OMT, by Blankfiend.
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GERMAN sovereignty tightens. everything else is a big pile of EU doo-doo. Save for France of course....hmmmm. What will the French do...what will the French do....
here is a typical exemple of how euro commission power works, for those who can read french :
Le président de l'UE, Herman Van Rompuy propose un "budget central" de la zone euro
The issue is more centralised fiscal budgeting. The commission proposes options, the 17 nations discuss and comment. There is then agreement or not. The commission proposes that the issue ALSO be examined by Euro Parliament and national parliament so that democractic control be exerted more strongly in future on all central decisions to which countries commit.
Only when all these issues have been answered will the commission propose a final draft for ratification by all national entities.
This is not DICTAT by the technocracy.
Worrisome... The second article in a row that displays somehow an interest in delivering facts on the current situation.
Last article: admission that in 'american' societies, the middle class rules.
This article: depicts how 'Americans' residing in Europe are full forward to blob up.
In 'Americanism', no other way than blobbing up.
'American' companies located in Europe are also looking for blobbing up.
Europe wants to go the same path as the US. In terms of social engineering, Europe, that is the 1790s US.
Visible minorities should pack up fast because 'Americans' in order to build their People entity know only one way: creating an incentive to join the new social unit by oppressing minorities.
'Americans' can not make your life better. They can only worsen it. And if you do not join them, they will show you a live example of what they mean.
Visible minorities in Europe should be fully aware that they are going to be used as the glue for the next social engineering project 'Americans' are on.
In China, "visible minorities" are "blobbing up" all the time in re-education camps. Or, they just disappear.
'Americanism' is spreading everywhere...
Who can beat 'Americans' on re education programs?
'Americans' have made re education of humanity one of their central tenets.
Hopefully, for all the fans of 'americanism', 'americans' are going to take charge in China and from that point, the sluggishness of the Chinese will be a thing of the past.
Whatever they say or pretend to do, the game is over for the single euro currency.
NOW EXCHANGE MY EURO'S FOR NEURO'S OR 20 TIMES MORE IN SEURO'S!
And while Europe is in the tank, the Euro keeps rising.
Consequently the US Dollar keeps falling.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/usd-index-daily-september-12-2012/
This is exactly what all of us "conspiracy theorists" have been predicting for the last several years! This is coming to the U.S. too. The 2008 financial crisis was ALWAYS about consolidation of power and was purposely set up to happen as it did.
This has been very systematic. It is moving towards full blown Communist Authoritarianism, and it will be far worse than the Soviet style. I hope people start waking up to their obvious plan. They've been doing it right in front of your fricking faces!!!
Difficult to centralize the US - authoritarian government up against citizens with the right to bear arms. Would never work.
Europe is a different story - unarmed, except Switzerland, and docile - believers that government solves all.
Difficult to centralize the US - authoritarian government up against citizens with the right to bear arms. Would never work.
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It would be indeed very hard for 'Americans' residing in the US to want to mimick what 'Americans' are willing to do in Europe.
For a very simple cause: a job done is no longer a job to be done.
What is wished to happen in Europe already happened in the US, 'Americans' succeeded in the US.
Ah, yeah, 'Americans' got guns when it was performed in the US. They did not seem interested in preventing it from happening as shown by the past.
Have you seen a revolt yet?
If there is, it will be small pockets here and there that will quickly be extinquished. No meaningful organization has been able to break through the government baracades yet.
You can bet that the NSA and other spy groups are busy watching Americans and Any organization that looks to be an up and coming threat will be squished quickly.
this takes the delusional post medal imo. Amerika is free and not centralized thanks to sale of Smith & Wessons to the sheeple...
wow! wow! big time wow!
And Europe, where they have had two revolutions of tectonic magnitudes, is docile and "believers in government". Well I should hope so. The only issue is : is that government representative of their interests? Club Med is in turmoil but that has been imported by 2008 meltdown. And it won't go away until those financialised banks are flushed out. Its all about the PRIVATE banks who run world capitalism, not about governments who are bankrupt. And who controls the banks in Europe? Pax Americana construct; as it all has worldwide the WS/City electronic hub as financial nexus.
WHere is REAL centralised power more true today : in corpo-USA or in Europe?
Its all about the PRIVATE banks who run world capitalism, not about governments who are bankrupt.
Falak, there's no clear divide between private and 'public' in this context. Together they form an oligarchic, rentier mulch designed to extract value from the productive, by buying votes from the electorate by offering them other people's wealth, and by controlling the money supply.
If the EU became what its bureacrats wanted it to - whereby the nation states become wholly subordinate - it would eventually be hijacked by its MIC and become another aggressive empire like the US, particularly if the US collapsed and was not around to help hold it in check.
Nation-states are just the modern version of the old kingdoms. They're tax farms. With the former you have (ideally) better rule of law, and a different set of puppets rather than one over-ruling figurehead, but they're no more or less likely to go to war than an empire, which is what the united States gradually became as the federal government acquired more power.
...there's no clear divide between private and 'public' in this context....
From my individual perspective this is a shocking statement to put on paper. You know and I know that the FED is not supposed to do what it does. You know n I know that S&P and the SEC are not supposed to do what they do as whistle blowers. That these loopholes are criminal behaviour on their part and constitute the bedrock of WHY the people do not trust the system any more. To have banks with 700 T derivative OTC trades sloshing around on their books with no due diligence done and to allow them to 'Corzine' it or to 'Paulson TARP' it at their will is just pure criminality.
To assume this as a 'fait accompli' that constitues the new norm is becoming party to the scam; by lowering our moral values and our perception of the norm. This is the stuff and this is the yardstick that nourishes the demonstrations on the streets and the deposition of corruption law suits in the courts of law, which should explode and become more recurrent as the system goes further into limbo and gridlock.
No the problem is that Private banks have corrupted the system as they are the criminals and the powerful movers of government. And this system is the core problem of our society.
If we the public say this situation is the norm then there is no hope.
I repeat there is a clear divide between public and private interests. ANd getting the country back is making this the rallying cry to get the rule of law as the norm again.
You and I will never win back the country and break the Oligarchy hold, nor will our children, if we accept to cross this Rubicon ourselves, and accept it on face value.
Never accept this and keep this distinction clear in our heads, and proof of conviction collected and archived, to bring down the Oligarchy when the time is right.
There is NO solution for the people other than reclaiming their rule of law in republic; and demanding that this dividing line be forever kept as proof of its good execution. Armed combat is feeding the beast. Reclaiming incessantly rule of law, civil disobedience to topple government and demand that the political class be changed is the only recourse. Gandhi and MAndela showed the way.
We should never become so cynical that right and wrong do not exist anymore in our minds, or we will not know how to understand and therefore to solve the problem. I deplore every betrayal and I applaud ZH for doing the same.
This is part of the Reaganomics sleight of hand I mentioned in my other post; the erosion of moral values in the era of making respectable the "greed is good" mantra nationwide. It has accelerated in the last four administrations to the point where the young are made blind and apathetical to basic dividing lines. This is how a civilization becomes a hotbed for anarchy and the breeding ground for dark ages thinking and mindset.
I am not there in my head, a citizen of the dark ages. Maybe that is what differentiates your perception from mine.
maybe re-read the article. Except for the Greeks and Icelanders the Euro people haven't done much of anything...And the Brits??? They're worse than Americans...
And I think Europe has had a lot more than 2 revolutions; you would think the experience might have helped. And this was never just a "pax americana" construct; There are some big European names and families involved in this crime; As well as LIBOR...some very "old" European banks involved!
Libor is AMerican banking in Europe tied up with the Rothschilds who are uber national...Libor is 100% pax americana since eurodollar and petrodollar days. Get your history right. its ALL $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Addendum:
Hillary Clinton is a brute savage, and rumored to be a lesbian with one of the Rothschilds.
who isn't?
There is a parliament in the EU, it should stop being a show piece for Farage type rants and become a true piece of representative we the people type debate, making the EU commission technocrats subservient to its decisions.
That is the TRUE time line of the Euro continent. And that is the best way to avoid falling back to the cesspit of nation state hate and blame, inernecine, ugly, gut-ripping competition that has been the history of its past centuries.
Anybody who doesn't understand that is not being sincere and honest; is in DENIAL or worse, in contempt, of first world western civilization origins.
How we get there, and what level of confederation or federation this implies, is now the burning issue into which the current corruption of Pax Americana morph has forced the world to take stock and measure of.
Pax Americana, if it stays on current trajectory, and Europe, inspite of Draghi expediency, are now heading towards two different trajectories, with RUle Britannia sitting on the City fence like Humpty Dumpty of Nigel Farage bent : Hot words and nothing there of substance behind it to show the way into the future.
That Europe suffers in this current meltdown is a given as it's surrogate to Pax Americana global hegemony. That it regresses into deep depression is a possibility. But so is retrenchement, consolidation and realignment based on a more solid foundation which will be a product of current disalignment/refoundation of global capitalist world, whose new face has still not emerged.
That face will appear inevitably as the three polluted threads of the global hegemony : money, energy and MIC, unravel under the reality of future events. Tipping times.
Relax, take a little time. Invest in Strasbourg real estate the future capitol of Euroland. Forget about Brussels bureaucrats. Things are going to change dramatically in Euroland in the coming years. In my opinion to the better for the Euroland population as a whole. Lets see.
I'm trying to figure out when somebody decided that the nation state was evil, and that for our good we need to be ruled by super states. The EU zealots really seem to think the problem is with the nations in europe, and if we could just give enough power to unelected EU bureaucrats, eveything would be fine.
If anything the last couple of years has made the EU and its humunculoid leaders look perposterously stupid. It is the best advertisment for leaving natural borders on our nations and forgetting all about global government. Heck, let Quebec secede, let the Waloons form their own country, it makes sense to me. That's how countries were formed in the first place: a shared territory, language and culture made for a shared destiny in the form of a single government.
Marx wanted to convert the world to communism, but was that a super state or just individual nation states with a shared economic structure? I don't know. Certianly, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin all wanted to create super states with themselves in charge. Some even succeeded for a time.
But with the EU I can't see where they even know what they building. They are just bolting this thing together whether it works or not. The peoples of these countires don't even want a single super state, and have voted against it time and again. But the EU bureaucrats don't care about obsolete ideas like democracy, they know what's right for the "unwashed masses", and so grab as much power as possible as quickly as possible. Sounds like Hitler (without the methadrine) to me.
...I'm trying to figure out when somebody decided that the nation state was evil,...
Napoleonic wars, Pax Britannica, colonial rape of world by the european nation states, then euro colonial nation state 'thieves falling out' controversy, when Bismarckian Germany said "liebensraum" and took Alsace-Lorraine, then WW1 then WW2, then post-colonial wars in SE Asia-- for nothing but hubris-- and ME-- for nothing but oil.
If you read history and what Keynes said back in 1920, when he wrote his seminal piece "the consequences of peace after the Versailles Treaty", his philosophical approach was this :
SInce Abelard days, Europe has been confronted between the choice of battle of words and ideas (the Abelardian dialectics legacy) and the gory battle of civilizations (the Bernard of Clairvaux legacy which condemned Abelard, proclaiming as Papal ideologue that 'God was with us when we go to war in Holy land'). Its the Papal legacy and subsequent nation-state at war legacy that forged european history.
Keynes a fervent believer in true peace felt that the Abelard route was now the only issue after WW1, and the SDN and UN creations were expressions of this thinking : That discussion was better than war. Before becoming a pseudo-scientist of economics Keynes was first and foremost a philosopher and also a shrewd speculator who made a lot of money in the 20s.
Global discussion on geopolitics has now become accepted, more and more, since MAD superpower confrontation over Cuba in 1962, and the universal rights charter of 1948 remains its guide line. That it is not truly respected is the fault of those very corrupt superpowers of which there is only one since 1991; the NWO nation-state that bends the so called global discussion to its own dictat, that has now morphed under its malinvestment and debt, and come back to haunt it like Banco's ghost.
So don't go historically Alzheimered on us and pretend this is something NEW the EU commission is pulling out of its ass!
Its written in the blood of countless dead in Europe and all over the world, the trail of one empire nation-state trying to rule the world, since Caesar's Rome.
Pax Britannica was bad? I also fail to see what it had to do with Europe, or what it says about the nation state. Surely what it did was to globalise the world, which of course is a very bad thing... No attempt to make the EU some kind of legatee of all of Europe's good intentions looks like anything other than a panglossian conspiracy of all the hideous paraphenalia of Euro-history where somehow these catastrophic clowns, descendants of tragedians- Merkel, Barroso, VanRompoy, Ashton- are presiding over the best of all possible Eurodictatorships; in fact they are presiding over the worst European unemployment since the depression, getting worse and they don't give a proverbial s*** because they are tucked up unaccountably round the hightables of Brussels and Frankfurt. We just want to dig in our f****** gardens but no can do.
you contradict yourself, Pax britannica was bad from the point of view of the colonised, it was dictatorship; precisely what you contest in Europe, where Barroso has no real power. The real power in europe is Merkel, Hollande, Cameron and Draghi. Not Barroso, who ONLY speaks when he is told to by the COuncil of nation states.
Its Merkel that is de facto dictator of europe as the PRIVATE banks, not EU commission, have raped the peripherals, and she and Draghi are protecting them; just like Cameron protects City and Potus/Ben the WS shills. All nation states are as guilty as hell. And one is more guilty than all the others : USA.
If you don't know where the problem is you won't know where the solutions to the problem lie!
This is a private banking crisis under Oligarchy control. Not under EU commission control. ANd those banks are today more controlled by their ties with WS/City than with the EU!
Its a bowl of Oligarchy spaghetti. I'll grant you that!
Pax Britannica viewed like this is a complete misnoma. tbc
ok rule britannia never existed; the opium wars, India, Canada, Africa and Cecil Rhodes, Kitchener, you name it, all a pipe dream including BAlfour declaration and carve up of Ottoman Empire. Denial is like a veil on a harem woman who never walks out of her golden cage.
BTW : Pax romana, where the word originated, meant roman peace under its hegemony. So it was "peace" but it was "peace after rape".
Unelected bureacrats and judges handing citizen money over to corrupt bankers?
Sounds like a recipe for revolutions.
European history? Hmmm...
May I suggest that Germany find a leader that restores law and order whether through peaceful protest or a rise to the political front on a wave of power from the German people.
Power of the people against banksters worldwide.
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ROTFLMAO :
' would “most likely” not violate the constitution '
Yes, I listened yesterday, and this sentence says everything.
The only good part is reading the German comments from Handelsblatt, FAZ, Welt , etc. etc.
99% of the German readers are fuming and want their politicians brought to account.
Godfrey would like to see the leading culprits (bEUrocrats) behind bars.
The Sources of the Euro Crisis and the EU Superstate with Godfrey Bloom!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx_cUqOFsZM
Germany does not even have a formal Constitution all it has is a Basic Law written by the Allies directly after WWII, no wonder anything goes here because Germans are not governed by law written by Germans. This was a SetUp all along with the outcome never in doubt
Still occupied territory here.
The best of all possible outcomes is the annihilation of the European automobile industry.
It looks like it could happen by this time next year. There might be a few corporate survivors hand-building expensive one-offs for billionairss ... as well as making parts for some smaller commercial trucks (fire engines, ambulances, etc.) The rest ... gone! Baby, gone!
US ... coming soon. Wait until the crude oil shortages hit. Everyone will see why the Feds bought hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow point ammunition. Fuel rationing = big hit to car owners in America = revolution!
I'll laugh: no car, no teevee.
Should Obama be elected I think the US would be hat in hand to Europe begging to be let into this "Federation'. Sovereignty is on the line in this election .... it is the most important election since 1860 ... and certainly the most important one in our lifetimes.
"...European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services, hammered home his plan to create a supranational banking supervisor..."
if there's one thing the City of London, sorry Britain, doesn't like it's a threat to its gambling joint
some smart cookies in London are suggesting Blighty is the dark horse outside favourite to leave the EU first ...who'd be brave enough to bet against them!
When those fools joined a common currency, they gave up their national sovereignty right then and there. They just didn't know it yet. It is only now, when Europe is deep in a bust, and monetary sovereignty suddenly matters, do they realize it. But now they are trapped. Stuck pigs. William Hague described the Euro as "a burning building with no exits" and he was right. Now we get to watch those pigs (including Germany) squeal as they get slowly burned and forced to accept the rule of a New Roman Empire. Within a decade there will be a new (unelected) Caesar to rule over Europe. Given the differences between EZ States, that is the only way they can go.
europe is a banana continent.
Like the SCOTUS decision recently on socialized medicine, I was correct in which direction the German court would go. The elites get what they want. Wars, legislation, court decisions, elections, you name it. Nothing will change until there is resistance in the streets, strikes, killings. But that is still in the future. For now, most westerners {Americans and Europeans} are still asleep, and can't even identify the source of their destruction, let alone what to do about it. May I suggest a rather benign, but highly effective start: Withdraw out most of your $ from banks, and use checking accounts for only pass through activity. Do not have a savings account of any kind, or balances over $100. Pay off, and CUT UP YOUR CREDIT CARDS. Save just one for emergency purposes, and for booking travel plans, but DO NOT use it for everyday purchases. Keep a zero balance on it. Cash in your 401ks. Close your brokerage accounts. In short, STOP TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. Isn't there a law against that anyway? As for the logic your bankster and broker will try to argue:"If you do that, it will be counted as income and taxed!" is their favorite scare tactic to keep you in the system. Maybe so, but look at it this way: You will only have to pay the tax once. Put that money in precious metals where they can't ever see it again. Had you do all of this just three weeks ago, the rise in the spot price of silver alone would have paid your tax for you, and you would be back flat! All of the ducks are in a row now for the "Big Print". It will be on a global scale. It is STILL not too late, but I wouldn't wait a day longer. STARVE THE BEAST!!!
pretty much agree...can't go all in yet but the outline is really the only safe thing to do. I worry if I leave anything in the 401k or whatever plan one has....that soon it will be forced into treasuries for 'my safety' and to patriotically support the country. With gold one can just sit on it for a generation if need be. Life could still be good. If and when gold rises to the value it must get to in order to work as a wealth asset perhaps one could bring it out to provide for life's needs.
great post. I have even got my wife to stop using the CC. screw the AA miles
The miles won't matter if there is no safe place to fly to.
Europe, already suffering from gangrene, is trying to infect itself with flesh-eating bacteria.
At least it will give future historians a laugh or two.
Market = Reality. At the moment both are being heavily manipulated by compliant judges, media and bureaucracies.
Both the market and the reality they impose will eventually win out regardless of whether they are embraced or attacked.
My only concern is whether the day after the collapse the same greedy, evil and incompetent people are still in charge.
I'm afraid they will bail out the day before ... buy a zillion puts and sail away on their 100 ft yatch ... cashing in their gains while sitting on the beach in Aruba
Ultimately it's the people hanging themselves. Revolt should be on the menu.
It's way to urly for that.
1. People still have to much to lose
2. It first has to hit them flat in the face and shit will need to hit the fan on a constant basis.
Untill than, it's like nothing is happening.
Just go out. Look how people are without a care in the world. Life is great.
the people are far too dis-interested to do anything about this Euro farce... besides, politicians are so adept at organising trainwrecks
like somebody didn't lean on those kraut judges. when the pendulum snaps back on all the state-controlled/NWO bullshit that is going on in this world there is gonna be a shitstorm. the hubris of these central planners is mind-bottling.
as much as i'm apt to think this project will fail. what if it doesn't?
what if-----these banks succeed in enslaving europe in a semi-stable fashion long enough to crush the nationalists and communists and bleed the poor long enough so that this shit lasts 20 years before it collapses.
20 years is a long time. by the time 20 years passes, people will maybe assume the thing will last another 50 years.
and upon that assumption , they will accept the creation of a european wide police force that is basically the bank gestappo. after that happens, then they can begin implementing pan-european policy. real policy. like language integration. outlawing political parties, blowing up headquarters of political parties seeking to overthrow the euro-project. and maybe even using a false flag nuclear weapon upon the capital of any country that succesfully defects. yea, it's concievable.the implicity message being that if you leave the euro project, the euro won't protect your capital. it's a beautiful dream. think about it.
eventually, the 23 official languages of the eu and hundreds more in europe. eventually the goal is reduce europe to fewer cultures and fewer languages. this can only be done with a combination of welfare incentives and the jackboot. the new european project will of course bring both more welfare for the masses contingent upon debasement based funding to support the banks and impoverish the savers. at the same time, part of the welfare payments are the jobs created to support the new system.
in time, the littany of advanced technologies will be deployed towards repressing the euro-haters. and an entire subclass of securitiy professionals will rise in europe. a 5th column of working class security profesionalls in EVERY country willing to undermine their own soveirgnty just to keep their jobs which depend on the euro project.
it's a form of neo-socialism that , with the right amount of repression, could work to build a century long house of cards, which by the time the century is over, will have to face entirely new challenges.
an entirely new boogey man will exist by then. i know it's hard to believe centuries of nationalism in europe will give way to a new order, but they already have. the creation of france, germany, spain , italy, were themselves order-------all of these countries were highly fragmented and regional and even multi-govermnented until only a couple hundred years ago or LESS. the trend is to have more centralization, not less. and technology , digitization, non-lethal crowd control, petroleum, telecom, the jetplane, transnational trade and the internet are all making centralization easier. the chances of neo-feudalism are remote.
i don't believe in the 'inevitable' direction of history, as some german philosophers have put it. but technology and economics do point to the possilibity of more centralization, despite the seeming odds against of collapse. or perhaps---in spite of it. maybe europe will collapse, and out of the ashes, something similar to what I describe will occur.
They don't need to be leant on. They are in this shit upto their elbows.
They know the plan. Look at their polical histories, they are politically appointed judges.