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When challenged by the people, the EU shows its true face
The “no” votes in France and the Netherlands against the EU constitution seem to be waking up some liberal elites in the U.S., if not their counterparts in Europe. Anne Applebaum, a member of the Washington Post’s editorial page staff and a frequent, if rather bland, guest on C-SPAN, writes insightfully in the conservative Union Leader about the blinding animus against democracy that moves Europe’s national leaders. In response to every expression of popular will against the creation of a European superstate, these leaders—Chirac being the most recent example—simply announce that the process must keep moving forward, as if the people hadn’t spoken at all. The leaders’ smug ignoring of the popular will, says Applebaum, will only lead to greater popular backlashes against European unification in the future.
I would add that that these leaders’ attempt to dissolve the national sovereignty of their respective nations without the approval of their respective peoples is not a mere mistake or miscalculation on their part; nor, as Applebaum suggests, does it merely show a lack of sufficient respect for democratic outcomes, though it certainly does show that. More fundamentally, it reveals the very satanic nature of the EU project. Email entry |