The European Union has become the cemetery of bad national rulers, the career prize of bureaucrats, the heart of centralism and opacity.
With a cast starring leaders with a judicially unreliable history and the announcement of measures that can only culminate in more taxes, Conservatives, Socialists, Greens and Liberals united around a common goal, survival.
Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected with the support of an unlikely coalition composed of Conservatives, Socialists, Liberals and Greens. We have witnessed attempts to convince ourselves that this was the result of a great democratic exercise, for our well-being, but the reality is different. What we saw was a convergence of diverse interests, where many sacrificed values and character – scarce in politics as a concept, and where in Brussels they definitely die.
The European Union has become the cemetery of bad national rulers, the career prize of bureaucrats, the heart of centralism and opacity. Here, all countries are pressured to lose their identity and abdicate their needs in favor of the collective priorities decreed by these bureaucrats, whatever the cost. Not even Marx would have idealized such a perfect materialization of his ideals.