I'm sorry, I'm just very disappointed about what I read on tagesschau.de (the online version of a major German news show), because it just confirms what I have been complaining about in the last days. In the absence of other options to express my disappointment I have to bore you with that:
German chancellor Angela Merkel said at the EU crisis summit in Brussels that she was hoping to find a solution together with Ireland, that she was against any sort of "2-zone-EU" and that she refused to change the Treaty.
That's not exactly what I would have said, but OK.
And now for the opposition: Instead of doing their job and saying something reasonable, like how they think we should proceed and attack the contents of what she shaid, they start an empty attack. Gregor Gysi, head of Die Linke, walked into the TVs of the Germans and said, that Ms. Merkel does not provide a solution and that she is just waiting for Ireland to say something, while at the same time refusing to change the Treaty and that she thus was ignoring the Irish who voted No to the Treaty.
Well, that's true - except for the statement that the Irish voted no to the Treaty. They didn't do that, because they didn't read it. They voted No to something different and it is our task to find out to what.
The problem is that Gysi makes it about Merkel. He is opposition and that's what oppositions do and it is his good right to judge her and everybody's style of government. But obviously Die Linke doesn't even bother to make their own suggestions. They just use The EU as some sort of platform to fight their national fights and European politics don't seem important enough to be addressed in a productive way.
If the people that would like to be a part of our national governments have nothing more to say about a severe crisis of the EU, which might be at a turning point in European history, then you don't have to ask why the EU is in this crisis at the moment. The very same people that are responsible for the fact that Europe doesn't play a role in national politics, by not talking about it, can use this fact to win their own little national fights (ironically also by not talking about it). Why do we always elect those idiots?
I'm feeling slightly better now.
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5 comments:
Chancellor Merkel's comments surprised me a bit, because they sounded nice and inoffensive, but within the parameters she set, a solution would have to appear as miraculously as a rabbit from a magician's hat?
Is that 'Realpolitik' or just wishful thinking?
Since little seems to be forthcoming from the ones in power, serious discussion about Europe's future needs the efforts of researchers, columnists, editorialists, bloggers and concerned EU citizens... especially if opposition parties show that they are only worthless snipers, without constructive views.
granlaw, thank you for all your comments.
Essentially I agree with you, currently it really doesn't look as if anything is going to move.
But maybe that's just what the situation needs. If we make a decision (no matter which) too quickly this whole thing looks as if somebody was trying to get his/her will by all means. And in my eyes its currently all about what impression the EU leaves in the heads of the people.
European governments currently have the difficult task to build and define something at the same time, i.e. it is not that everybody has a clear vision about what its going to be in the end and neither does anybody know how exactly this whatever should be implemented best.
It is sad to see how many different ideas about how to proceed diffused around in the blogs after the Irish No, because all those different ideas lead to different forms of the EU (from pure trade-zone over multi-tier-union to one-zone-union) and this shows that there is absolutely no general consensus about what we want...
Currently it seems that any form of "2-zone-EU" is not the favored solution. I also don't see how this is going to work, but maybe it is better to stop and think here than trying to construct something partially just in order to have something done.
(But then again, I can remember myself thinking about the same stuff, when the Constitution was stopped...)
A 2-speed EU is quite feasable. Schengen and the Eurozone already show how this ca work. On issues like Foreign Policy it should be possible to find similar arrangements, so that a cetain numbers of countries combine their foreign policy.
rz, I completely agree, it is feasible. And I would be in favor of something like that, because I cannot imagine how to satisfy all parts of this very inhomogeneous system otherwise.
What I meant was, that currently our elected representatives do not favor such a model. They seem to have bigger plans that they didn't reveal to me.
take it easy,
wählt gysi
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