EU unveils new emergency powers
This week, to little fanfare, the European Commission set out an ‘emergency tool’ called the ‘Single Market Emergency Instrument’, by which it could seize control over key parts of the European economy. Effectively, this tool would allow the commission to ...
The European Union is turning into the Soviet Union.
As was inevitable. It was a bureaucratic tyranny from day 1, with only the thinnest veneer of democracy ever installed. All bureaucratic organizations have the same failing: A bureaucrat cannot imagine a world with less bureaucracy or oversight, and cannot accept a person or organisation acting independently with autonomy. Independence and autonomy are anathema to all administrators in the same way that a king abhors real liberty.
More like the National Socialist Worker's Union. Soviet union would see them straight up taking over businesses, not ordering businesses from on high while the owners still "own" their businesses.
Germany is currently in the process of doing just that with various energy companies, e.g. Rosneft and Uniper.
turning into?
The EU has been a predatory empire from the beginning - a mere 20 years ago.
Britain only managed to escape the clutches because they never surrendered their sovereign currency. The rest of the Eurocucks are in deeper shit at this point.; ref: Greece + Cyprus. Also now -energy because Russia.
The parliamentary umbrella EU architecture exceeding sovereign country authority // was never a good idea. And the merging of currencies into the Euro looking sketchier all the time. The EU is a ransomware project.
Watches the EU preparing to speedrun the Venezuelan record...
Sooo, first they destroy their own energy sector, placing their faith completely in Russian gas imports.
Then they subvert a Russian ally on it's border.
Then they run cover for ethnic cleansing of Russians in that country to provoke a war with Russia.
Then they go 6 months without in any way securing an alternative fuel source before winter.
(Also, Biden, who has a number of shady dealings in Ukraine, dismantles America's energy sector at the same time)
Now they grant themselves emergency powers to deal with the emergency they created?
As a Canadian, this seems awfully familiar...
Hey, this is like the plot of the prequel trilogy but dumber.
Hey it's looking like "WWII electric boogaloo" as look at the current situation:
The UK is alone in Europe
Russia is moving against the European central power
An Asian power is strangling all European influence in that region
If they announce a new Hugo Boss range for the military then that'll complete it. Bloody leftists, can't even come with some thing new like WW3, got to rip off the original.
WWI was the original, not WWII.
Yes but just as there should be only one WW1 (Trench warframe, horrific loss of life) there's only one WW2 (isolated Britain, talks of 'camps', a central power low on resources) just switch Jews with whites and we're in the early days of the regime.
Whites and Christians.
The 4th Reich without the Boss uniforms.
This would not be something to be afraid of if it weren't the fucking EU. In a smaller dose with more defined powers and defined conditions this is not in and of itself necessarily a bad thing. However we've seen them abuse their powers left and right without care. I'm surprised they even put this in instead of just enacting whatever the hell they wanted. They don't give a shit about laws or any regulations or something like that. The European commission as if they are in existence due to Divine Right like they are a king.
We grant ourselves emer-gen-cee powas to create a grand army of duh republic "I love democracy..."
At this point, the EU is it's own nation and the various "countries" in Europe are basically states like those in the U.S.
"Europe" is a nation, not a continent.
There isn't a single point in human history where the words "give" and "control" placed in the same sentence ended well.
Von Der Leyen again trying to be the new Hitler.
Not lacking for ambition, but this creature is a servant and an emissary rather then the Leader.
This is also why what I have told idiot glowies many times, that their "glowposting will solve everything" is wrong. For this apparatchik there are 10,000 interchangeable others. It hurts the regime not one whit, and even gives them a martyr.