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PI Newsletter #68

  1. ‘The EU is an empire’

Wolfgang Streeck on why the EU is a deplorable institution that we must leave.

EU propaganda enlists people’s desire for peace and friendship to rob them of their most important institutional heritage: the nation state. The nation state is the only site of a politics amenable to anything like a redistributive state or an egalitarian democracy.

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The EU has a centre and a periphery, with a steep gradient of power between the former and the latter. The centre imposes and enforces its political and economic order on the periphery, in the form of the common currency, the ‘four freedoms’ of the common market, and a general requirement of adherence to ‘European values’.

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Peripheral countries that do not follow the rules, such as Greece under the SYRIZA government, are punished by central institutions like the European Central Bank, while central countries like France are exempt from punishment.

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The EU’s de facto constitution consists of the Treaty of European Union, which is practically impossible to revise, and the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which only the court itself can revise. The neoliberal core of the EU as an institution and the results of European integration were intended by its framers to be eternal and irreversible. This is shown by the hard opposition in Brussels to a British exit, and in the intention to make that exit as unpleasant as possible.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/29/the-eu-is-an-empire/?fbclid=IwAR2QsM406bRz9n6QeDIfR-Exyb2HIk8mAsjudrI4RanTz1QCJTRedVzxz54#.XJ4UvexzwoU.facebook

  1. European Commission Is Working on Making Migration Pact Legally Binding

The Global Compact for Migration, GCM, was formally endorsed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 19 December 2018.  Merely six weeks later, a note by the European Commission’s legal service dated 1 February 2019  states the exact of what was always told.

This note is titled “The legal effect of the adoption of the Global Pact for Safety, Orderly and Regular Migration by the UN General Assembly” and was only recently leaked.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/european-commission-is-working-on-making-migration-pact-legally-binding/?fbclid=IwAR0WF2ZJsILlXWwtaUZJ1CiPFyjGEPotnlo4CgTLkYYiaZjcAuwAHDIVM5k

  1. Orban Warns Against Demographic Tidal Wave from Africa

Addressing the Budapest Migration Conference organised by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Orban said, “We need to act now”. If European policymakers fail to make decisions immediately, then it will be impossible to stop later what has already been put into motion.

The Hungarian leader cited UN data indicating that the population of Africa will rise by half a billion people in 13 years and the gap between the quality of life in Africa and Europe will widen. “Migration pressure from Africa will surely grow,” he said.

Orban said Africans should be helped in their home countries rather than in Europe. The approach to migration by the eastern and western parts of Europe must be reconciled now because later this would become impossible to achieve, he said.

http://freewestmedia.com/2019/03/27/orban-warns-against-demographic-tidal-wave-from-africa/?fbclid=IwAR20dT_K3CLqnS_9jKY7-CiIlS-iJ8gj5dOEnIjwtW6Em5cTLj7jfgupJL8

  1. Is Putin One of Us?

In the culture war for mankind’s future, is he one of us?

While such a question may be blasphemous in Western circles, consider the content of the Russian president’s state of the nation address.

With America clearly in mind, Putin declared, “In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered.”

“They’re now requiring not only the proper acknowledgment of freedom of conscience, political views and private life, but also the mandatory acknowledgment of the equality of good and evil.”

https://buchanan.org/blog/putin-one-us-6071

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