tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post257712809646199807..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: Hungary: the Real Threat to Europehatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-68577489256302817562012-01-08T13:20:16.761+00:002012-01-08T13:20:16.761+00:00Italy has a competent, functioning and readily acc...Italy has a competent, functioning and readily accessible constitutional court though, Elby. Were the actions of the Italian president improper in inviting Monti to form an administration and submit it to the vote in both Houses - Berlusconi's administration having lost its majority in the Lower House - numerous appeals would have been lodged at once. <br /><br />There has been no such protest; indeed no protest at all against the Monti administration in any other form either, apart from groans and screams from the usual suspects, ie the recipients of state cut-back effects. There has been also a remarkable number of arrests of criminal gang leaders recently. And now, those who evade taxes due are wondering how to hide their yachts and planes, their maseratis and ferraris, their multiple dwellings, enjoyed on a declared income of 20,000 euros a year.<br /><br />There will be general elections in 2013 and, should Monti's administration fall in Parliamentary vote, the President will have to find another to try on the prime ministership and get the votes of confidence or, then and only then, call premature elections.<br /><br />Italy in many respects is more responsive to democratic will, as well, than the UK's democracy. When a referendum is wanted here there is a specific and direct means to obtain one and its results are binding upon the government (not just of the day but subsequent governments). <br /><br />Going with my mother's 'if there is nothing good to say then say nothing unless you must' policy - I have read the ZH guest post.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-81470459721687741192012-01-07T18:06:03.616+00:002012-01-07T18:06:03.616+00:00ZeroHedge on Italy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...ZeroHedge on Italy<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-has-italy-gone-fascistElby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-30667496422050274272012-01-06T13:51:20.599+00:002012-01-06T13:51:20.599+00:00The link is supposed to go to Hungarian Spectrum, ...The link is supposed to go to Hungarian Spectrum, Yacht. I think the whole series of posts there is better than I can do as an outsider.<br /><br />The European Union has multiple roots: sociopolitical offshoot of NATO, longterm programme for the reunification of Germany, the prevention of the use of Europe ever again as a battlefield (this is the one invariably put forward by the English Shirley Williamsy social democrats), the project to advance post-democratic administrative governance by 'meritocratic' elites, a single trading area with or without a common currency... All these objectives, and the others, co-exist (German unification excepted as it has now been achieved) and, quite notably, none of them are really in conformity with the UK's best interests, for although the UK is no longer a global power its institutions and history, as well as its goals remain global not regional.<br /><br />The unifying purpose to which all right-thinking Europeans subscribe though, is the prevention of fascism's rise and the accompanying possibilities for the extermination of European peoples that fascism engenders.<br /><br />As you say, "If the safety valves of democracy continue to be screwed down from Brussels, sooner or later an explosion is likely.' which is why the current formation of the EU is so particularly repugnant. But it must still be recognised that the prevention of holocaust is an objective that should temper proper and justifiable criticisms of Europe's failings, and that care in who is chosen as an ally in shaping Europe for the better should be informed by this, of all reasons, for the construction of European union.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-62150013057123734612012-01-06T09:05:43.410+00:002012-01-06T09:05:43.410+00:00The linked article seems to discuss how Hungary wi...The linked article seems to discuss how Hungary wishes to run its own affairs in its own way, but the EU won't let them.<br /><br />We're all well aware that "the Union stands firm against" any expression of independence or self-government amongst its vassal states, but I hope that is not what you meant.<br /><br />If you meant - as I guess and hope - that the "Union" stands firm against another rise of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, then we should reflect that its anti-democratic and bullying nature makes it unlikely to be all the effective. <br /><br />If the safety valves of democracy continue to be screwed down from Brussels, sooner or later an explosion is likely.Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.com