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EU could form into never before seen political entity – academic
Published: 05 August, 2010, 06:23
Edited: 21 August, 2010, 06:08
TAGS: Military, EU, Russia, Politics
The final form of the EU could possibly become a new type of state that hasn’t existed yet, shared Professor of Political Science Waldemar Skrobacki from the University of Toronto.
“The EU is a political force of significance. It is a little bit unusual because it does not have an army,” Skrobacki said. “It does not have all the usual requirements assigned to a state – because it is not a state, but it is as such quite influential and it has a presence in many corners of the world.”
“[The EU’s] significance is not based on its military power or the threat of using military power. It is not a political force that can be conceived in purely realistic terms, because realism is only partially applicable to the nature of the EU.”
Skrobacki believes that the EU comes out of every crisis with an accelerated integration process.
The professor does not believe in the fall of the euro simply because the resonance will shatter the whole world. Instead, it can serve as a guarantee to its stability.
If Russia wants to maintain good relations with the EU, it had better deal with the EU officials directly and not through the heads of states that form the EU, Skrobacki said.
04.08.2010, 22:41
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EU, NATO; both are organizations which sap the sovereignity, money and lives of its members! Do away with these autocratic behemoths. Let European nations be independent and bring back their old currencies. The EU is becoming way too powerful. It is only supposed to be a European free-trade bloc. If the EU is allowed to grow into one entity, unchecked and unchallenged, then it is only a matter of time before it will be used to confront Russia. It could very well become another version of an arrogant and imperialist US. No more political and military blocs! They only bring problems.
Of course a Professor of a Canadian University is not favourable to a good development of relations between Russia and single countries of Europe (Germany, Italy etc.). Therefore, he suggests to relay directly to EU officials. PS. The Italian government has sent two aircrafts to Russia for helping in the struggle against fires. Perhaps it is not a great help, but more than the nothing from the EU.
This professor is evidently biased and most probably paid by pro-EU lobby-organizations. Many European nations are strongly sceptic towards the EU-project, and for good reasons. The majority of Swedes have voted no to the Euro currency and the norwegians does not even want to join the EU-project. Large portions of voters of several european nations protested against the Lisboa Treaty and wants to secede from the European Union. Democracy is Greek and means "people-rule", i.e. it implies the idea of rule "by the people, of the people and for the people". The "people" - demos - was never an abstract issue for the various Greek city-states, but instead a tangible, specific and rooted ethnic tribe with demands of autonomy and self-sufficiency, which were important virtues in classical Hellas. In the EU, we have so many different peoples (demos) that democracy (self-autonomy for each people) is impossible as a whole, while possible for each nation or region. Following from this, the centralized European Parliament can not represent the various european peoples in a genuinely democratic manner. As Aristoteles, one of the major contributors of European democratic ideas, and tutor of Alexander the Great, rightly pointed out that each city-state must be viewed like an organism that needs to be in balance, with its proper measures of size not being exceeded. He explained that the people need to know and keep a close contact and discussion with their representatives and politicians, which in turn demanded a small to medium-sized city-state. If the state-organism grows beyond certain limits, then democracy fails. EU is certainly not a democracy in the true sense, since the basic premises that democracy demands - according to Aristoteles - homogeneity and medium-sized regional power-structures, are not in place. The claims of "democracy" in relation to the European Union is a mere smoke-screen for a growing bureaucracy, oligarchy and free market neo-liberalism.