The EU: Headbang into the proverbial idealistic wall
September 24, 2010
As the nation state crumbles to the ground with the thick heavy sound of impotence, the praised vision of an integrationist multi-state feeds the hunger of the contextually weaker actors and irritates the conservatory few that still hold on “nails and teeth” to their system of values and beliefs.
But how does the multi-state – or Union – looks from within? Shaped like a tidal wave, it bares the stigmata of confusion and produces an overgrown snail-slow administration that seems to be enticed in spawning hopeless ammendments under the emaciated umbrella of subsidiary law. Like all oversized mega-projects, it consummes resources such as time and money at an accelerated pace, forcing its weaker actors into collapse and heavily increasing the peer pressure on the stronger ones.
It has no exit policy other than threaty violation. Through its social pillar policies it grazes the suveranity of the member states causing intra- and inter- state friction. It uses the media to speculate on the unilateral state decissions shifting the public opinion towards the left or right policy as need may be. It doesn`t pledge loyalty to a doctrine but rather to an yearly interest agenda. It stresses the importance of 27 official languages but only uses 3. It provides a week supra-citizenship that confuses the imigration and emigration laws of the member states. It holds a feeble hand over monopoly market policies and it takes too long to introduce a universal currency.
Since it is nonetheless a very popular ongoing project, it is rather easier to suggest possible resolutions to the above issues than to dismiss it alltogether.
Some efficient solutions would be – fastening the monetary conversion process, strengthening the citizenship, producing policies that contain monopoly and policies that specialise the local industries. Selecting 3 or 4 official languages, strenghtening the suveranity of the union itself and finding a coeherent method of coexistence with the member state suveranity.
