Recuperar la idea de Europa

Saliendo de la trinchera al contraataque

El presidente de turno de la Unión Europea ha dado un "zas! en toda la boca" a la banda de delincuentes interesados de Bruselas. No os perdáis el discurso con el que abofeteó a los parias del parlamento de la PAC.

La época que vivimos es clave, ¡cuánta razón tiene el sr. Klaus al desmentir a Fukuyama y su fin de la historia! Siempre me sorprendió la manera en que la realidad afecta a las personas que viven en la mentira, por la mentira y de la mentira. La airada reacción de la mayoría de los europarlamentarios contrasta con las verdades como puños que esgrimió Váklav Klaus. Algunas perlas:

In the politically correct rhetoric we keep hearing these days, we often hear about other possible effects of European integration, which are, however, of lesser and secondary importance. These are, moreover, driven by the ambitions of professional politicians and the people connected to them, not by the interests of ordinary citizens of the member states.

There is no end of history. Claiming that the status quo, the present institutional form of the EU, is a forever uncriticizable dogma, is a mistake that has been – unfortunately – rapidly spreading, even though it is in direct contradiction not only with rational thinking, but also with the whole two-thousand-year history of European civilization. The same mistake applies to the a priori postulated, and therefore equally uncriticizable, assumption that there is only one possible and correct future of the European integration, which is the “ever-closer Union”, i.e. advancement towards deeper and deeper political integration of the member countries.

The present decision making system of the European Union is different from a classic parliamentary democracy, tested and proven by history. In a normal parliamentary system, part of the MPs support the government and part support the opposition. In the European parliament, this arrangement has been missing. Here, only one single alternative is being promoted and those who dare thinking about a different option are labelled as enemies of the European integration. Not so long ago, in our part of Europe we lived in a political system that permitted no alternatives and therefore also no parliamentary opposition. It was through this experience that we learned the bitter lesson that with no opposition, there is no freedom.

There is also a great distance (not only in a geographical sense) between citizens and Union representatives, which is much greater than it is the case inside the member countries. This distance is often described as the democratic deficit, the loss of democratic accountability, the decision making of the unelected – but selected – ones, as bureaucratisation of decision making etc. The proposals to change the current state of affairs – included in the rejected European Constitution or in the not much different Lisbon Treaty – would make this defect even worse. Since there is no European demos – and no European nation – this defect cannot be solved by strengthening the role of the European parliament either. This would, on the contrary, make the problem worse and lead to an even greater alienation between the citizens of the European countries and Union institutions.

El checo critica el discurso único del europeísmo, que postula una unión más fuerte y una cesión mayor de soberanía cara a Bruselas. Dice que el parlamento europeo tiene poca gracia, porque está dominado por el discurso único. Europa tiene gobierno, pero no oposición, y así no se construye un régimen de libertades. Compara la situación de la UE con la de la opresión comunista. Su país, bajo el dominio de la bota militar tenía parlamento, pero no oposición política, ni variedad de discursos.

El control burocrático de la evolución de la Unión Europea es un error. Cuando en las pasadas elecciones, en el vídeo electoral del PSOE, se ve a un gandul metiendo una bandera europea en una urna, ¿eso qué significaba? Esto me recuerda al cuento "El traje nuevo del emperador". Resulta paradójico -divertidamente paradójico-, que sea el propio presidente de la UE el que diga que el emperador va desnudo.

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