European Union

European Union   (IGO)
Motto	United in diversity
Formation	23 July 1952
Type	international
Subgroups	• European Parliament • European Council • Council of the European Union • European Commission • Court of Justice of the European Union • European Central Bank • European Court of Auditors • Eurojust • Europol • Schengen Information System • European Agency for Safety and Health at Work • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training • European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions • European Environment Agency • European Training Foundation • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction • European Medicines Agency • Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market • Community Plant Variety Office • Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union • Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union • European Maritime Safety Agency • European Aviation Safety Agency • European Network and Information Security Agency • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control • European GNSS Agency • European Railway Agency • Frontex • European Fisheries Control Agency • European Chemicals Agency • European Institute for Gender Equality • European Defence Agency • European Institute for Security Studies • European Union Satellite Centre • European Police College • European Police Office • European body for the enhancement of judicial co-operation • Fundamental Rights Agency • Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications • European Systemic Risk Board • Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators • European Banking Authority • European Securities and Markets Authority • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority • European Asylum Support Office • European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom security and justice • Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation • Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency • Executive Agency for Health and Consumers • Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency • Research Executive Agency • European Research Council Executive Agency • Euratom Supply Agency • European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy • European Institute of Innovation and Technology • European External Action Service
Interest of	Josep Borrell, Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Netherlands/Deep state, Wolfgang Streeck, Guy Verhofstadt
Member of	G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum
Sponsor of	Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network
Subpage	•European Union/Ombudsman
Membership	• Austria • Belgium • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Ireland • Italy • Latvia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Malta • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain • Sweden
An international superstructure that has evolved since WW2.

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

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!

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.

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.

Capital punishment in Europe

Officially the death penalty has been abolished in all European countries. Widely adopted resolutions, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and two protocols from the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe lay out that no can be deprived of his/her live. However, Article 2 (Right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights holds that when force is necessary to quell an insurrection, the death of people can be lawful.

Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary:

• c. in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection

Emergency assistance

The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union holds that member states can send forces for to another union member to:

• prevent the terrorist threat in the territory of the Member States;
• protect democratic institutions and the civilian population from any terrorist attack;
• assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a terrorist attack;
• assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a natural or man-made disaster;

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."

 

An example

Page name	Description
Eurozone	Monetary union in Europe.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Black site	“The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition”	European Parliament	2006
Europe/Deep state	“A Briton agreed that "supranational consciousness" was not yet very fully developed within the E.C. countries, and thus it was important to avoid the supranational ambitions of the E.C. institutions going too far too fast.”		1989
Walter Hallstein	“He was ardently wedded to the thesis of the super-State, and bent all his skilful efforts towards giving the Community the character and appearance of one. He had made Brussels, where he resided, into a sort of capital. There he sat, surrounded with all the trappings of sovereignty, directing his colleagues, allocating jobs among them, controlling several thousand officials who were appointed, promoted and remunerated at his discretion, receiving the credentials of foreign ambassadors, laying claim to high honors on the occasion of his official visits, concerned above all to further the amalgamation of the Six, believing that the pressure of events would bring about what he envisaged.”	Charles de Gaulle Walter Hallstein	1971
Jean-Claude Juncker	“We decide something, then put it in the air and wait a while to see what happens. If there is no great shouting and no uprisings, because most people do not even understand what has been decided, then we will continue - step by step, until there is no turning back.”	Jean-Claude Juncker	1999
Jarosław Kaczyński	“Of course, Germany operates under the veil of the European Union. Remember, we are not arguing with the EU, we are its loyal members, we argue with Germany. We just do not want the old German idea from the 1915 book, called ‘Mitteleuropa’, in which Poland was planned to be a country subordinate to Germany, which can develop economically, but must always be clearly behind Germany,”	Jarosław Kaczyński	25 September 2022
Albin Kurti	“The European Union is our destiny”	Albin Kurti	4 November 2021
The Philippines	“1995, Catholics for a Free Choice, 'Opus Dei: The Pope's Right Arm in Europe': "The Hanns-Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, is accredited with and receives funding from the European Union. The foundation is linked with the CSU (the Bavarian Christian Democrat) party of the late Fritz Pirkl, who was in the European Parliament and served on the boards of directors of Hanns-Seidel and the Rhine-Danube Foundation. Together with Limmat, Hanns-Seidel has funded Opus Dei’s extensive operations in the Philippines, including the Centre for Research and Communication. The centre’s "self-declared task is to form the future economic and political elite of the country," writes Opus Dei critic Peter Hertel. "Under President Corazon Aquino, Opus members have put a decisive stamp on the country’s Constitution."”	Joël van der Reijden ISGP	20 JL

 

Known members

All 27 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Austria	German-speaking republic in Central Europe. Since the end of the Cold War, Austria has become increasingly westernised.
Belgium	Former European colonial power
Bulgaria	The poorest country in the European Union.
Croatia	Formerly part of Yugoslavia, Croatia is westernising at a rapid rate, with membership of the European Union and NATO being achieved relatively quickly after independence.
Cyprus	A small, divided, island in the Mediterranean. Greek Cyrpus was aggressively pushing the COVID-19/Vaccine in May 2021.
Czech Republic	Formerly communist, central European nation.
Denmark	Member of the EU, NATO.
Eire	Island off the coast of Great Britain. Ireland is a member of the EU but not NATO.
Estonia	Estonia is the most northern of the Baltic States. Formerly part of the USSR, now EU and NATO.
Finland	Nordic country, borders Russia.
France	A European nation, former colonial power, permanent seat on the UNSC
Germany	"The economic powerhouse of Europe" - Germany dominates the European Union.
Greece	"In 2006... the third biggest arms importer after China and India."
Hungary	Formerly communist country in Eastern Europe, now a member of NATO, and the EU, Hungary is currently lead by Viktor Orban, an adversary of Brussels.
Italy	European country that has the sixth-largest national wealth and third-largest central bank gold reserve. Italy/Deep state is an integral part of the SDS.
Latvia	Former USSR, now NATO and EU. The middle country of the Baltic States. SDS power consolidation in 2021
Lithuania	Formerly part of the USSR, now NATO and the EU. Since 2021, aggressive mandation of vaccines.
Luxembourg	One of the richest and smallest sovereign states in the world.
Malta	Island nation in the Mediterranean sea
Netherlands	Politicly fragmented and very densely populated country. Had very lenient drug and (underage) sex laws. Named a "narco-state" by neighbouring countries. Home of the first Bilderberg meeting.
Poland	Fast growing, revived country since World War 2. Became a very loyal US Deep State parter. The populace are by a mile the biggest supporters of NATO presence in Europe.
Portugal	Politically very controlled country, with a duopoly between socialist parties. Refused a War on Drugs, with successful results.
Romania
Slovakia	Formerly communist country in Eastern Europe. Now a member of NATO and the European Union.
Slovenia	A small country in Europe that was never part of the Warsaw Pact.
Spain	Seemingly a tropical easy-going country on the southern border of Europe. Spain has had trouble running a “death squad-free” democracy since Franco retired. Spain has seen the bloodiest post Gladio 1 terror attack take place in Madrid in 2004, and was a battleground of the Ifs and GRU during the 2010s.
Sweden	A nation state which is heavy on social control, but which defied the SDS COVID lockdown policy.

 

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Document:Behind the Greek Debt	article	7 July 2015	Thierry Meyssan	The geoplitics underlying what is presented as a crisis of national indebtedness
Document:Gaddafi's 2009 speech: "Let's call it the UN Terror Council"	Speech	23 September 2009	Muammar Gaddafi	No one is above the UN General Assembly. All nations should be and should be seen to be on an equal footing. At present, the UN Security Council is security feudalism, political feudalism for those with permanent seats, protected by them and used against us. It should be called, not the UN Security Council, but the UN Terror Council.
Document:How Russia betrayed America	essay	10 March 2015	Mike King	A useful mirror image of the Anglo-US-Nato official narrative about Russia
Document:I Am Obliged to Reconsider My Support for the European Union	Article	3 October 2017	Craig Murray	Today, and with a greater sadness than you can imagine, I withdraw my support for membership of the European Union
Document:It’s Nato that’s empire-building, not Putin	article	7 March 2015	Peter Hitchens	Rare honesty, peppered with obligatory obeisances to western official narratives, about Nato empire-building since 1990 from a western mainsteam media journalist.
Document:Seventy Years of Harassing the Political Establishment and Peoples of Europe	article	4 February 2016	Andre Fomine	Anglo-US domination of the political establishments and peoples of Europe - especially Germany - over 70 years following the end of World war II
Document:The EU's ugly kindergarten of intellectually challenged clowns	article	31 August 2014	'The Saker'	There is Russian saying: "you can't scare a hedgehog with a naked backside". It summarises of this article's analysis of the threatened fourth round of EU Sanctions against Russia and the clownish absurdity of its US puppet leaders
Document:Who is Bombing European Civilians?	article	22 March 2016	Sott.net	Sharp questioning of precisely who is responsible for attacks on civilians in Europe
Document:Why Angela Merkel has lasted so long	Article	30 July 2021	Wolfgang Streeck	2 months before the September 2021 elections in which Angela Merkel will retire as Chancellor, a German economic sociologist writes as to why and how she has been able to hold onto power in Germany for so long after an unprecedented 16 years in power.
Document:Why Isn’t Everyone In Favour of Taxing Financial Speculation?	report	19 April 2016	Robert Reich	Bernie Sanders wants to tax stock trades at a rate of 0.5 percent (a trade of $1,000 would cost $5), and bond trades at 0.1 percent. The tax would reduce incentives for high-speed trading, insider deal-making, and short-term financial betting. Sanders’ 0.5 percent tax could thereby finance public investments that enlarge the economic pie rather than merely rearrange its slices – like tuition-free public education.
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