I'm not a scholar in economics but it is
1. Common sense that any budget must have balance in the books.
2. It's also common sense that if a country is in recession, it's time for investments in infrastructure and social enterprises to limit the effects of the recession.
3. It's common sense that needed austerity measures must be taken in times of growth.
Talk about screwing things up.
On the other hand, like I pointed out, I'm not a economist.
The question was:
Can EUrope afford a trade war with Russia?
The answer is:
Yes!
Everything has a price but for a society with democratic and moral values this is a price we must pay! The interesting question is, can Putin afford this trade war?
When will all the European leaders understand the fact that the most pragmatic way, the most economical way and the most human way to handle all the migration to Europe, would be a common European migration authority under a European ministry of migration
To always follow the main stream is like to counteract against democracy in silence. Advocacy is to build democracy in such a manner that it captures everybody's attention.
Nazism and Hitler wasn't born out of nothing, even if it may seem so when we talk about it today. Nazism was born out of a nascent anti-Semitism that slowly grew in Europe after the first world war. With anti-Semitism followed the concept of race and the image that there was a master race, who deserved so much better than the fate they got after the First World War. A scapegoat was needed and it was very easy to dust off and develop the old anti-Semitism that became the most powerful weapon of Hitler and the Nazis. Hitler won his power through "democratic" elections before the coup and before the dictatorship was a fact. Meanwhile anti-Semitism deepened in Europe to the degree that all Jews where animalized.
Today we associate Nazism and fascism with the darkest and most evil of the human mind and by the actions that were carried out in its name, especially during the war, but we must never forget how an entire nation, and later an entire continent ended up in its grip. How boundaries and norms constantly moved forward so that they eventually landed beyond all human understanding. How it was a process over time.
The question is, where are we going today? Where is the process in 2014? We can once again see how social norms and values are broadened to accept various forms of discrimination, racism and anti-democratic tendencies in our society's. So-called extremists and fundamentalists are annually moving their positions forward. What was unthinkable 10 years ago is now a reality.
The patterns and the process from the inter-war period is repeated all over Europe, from Greece to the UK and Sweden. There are however two crucial differences, and that is the fact that Europe isn't shattered by war, as it was after the great war and the educational level of the citizens of Europe are generally among the worlds highest. That should limit the momentum of the ideological evil, but when?
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No one should never again need to flee within or from Europe!
If Europe ever comes in to that horrible situation again that will force people to flee or hide, you and I will be to blame, because we have been given the responsibility from the last 70 year's of unification and democratic development to leave our children and grandchildren a even better Europe to live in.
Democracy and liberty creates true security and prosperity. To guarantee this for all Europeans we must stand united and we must keep on fighting against everyone who challenges our unity, our liberty and our democracy.
The turnout in the European elections was the lowest in the history of the parliament.
Thousands of grassroot activists around Europe was working very hard to turn the negative turnout in the European elections in to a positive, but it didn't give the result that Europe needed.
Their work wasn't only about convincing Europeans to vote, but also to advocate for a better and more democratic Europe.
The small steps that was taken for a better democracy, with the presidential candidates wasn't enough and media across Europe didn't help to promote the democratic development and definitely not the hard work of the pan-european grassroots movement for democracy.
Without naming any names, the national leaders of Europe have a huge responsibility for the low turnout. We must let them know that!
The consequences of the election results, including the low turnout are the so called success of the far-right populists. How this will effect EU policy in the comming years is uncertain, but it will most likely effect the results in comming national elections and give more air under the wings of leaders such as Victor Orban.
And finally, if we the people don't take democracy more seriously, we don't deserve it.
Human value can't be valued in euro's and cents. Human value can only be valued as a whole. An individual can't therefore be valued by any other individual or group. This means that we are all created equally.
Human value should however not be confused with human actions. Most actions we make can be, and are valued from a social, individual and economic perspective and thereby land on a plus account or a minus account. This means that we all must carry the consequences of our actions.
Developments in Iraq, Syria and Israel-Palestine is terrible and inhuman. We must be able to stand up against the killings, the violence and the assimilation, regardless of whether the victim or the perpetrator is a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim or a victim of political fundamentalism. If we, who live in security and just follow these horrors on the morning news can't see the human suffering for what it is, human suffering, then what hope is there?
Those who say that the EU isn't a peace project must of missed their history classes.
Those who say that the EU haven't spread democracy must of been sleeping for the last 35 year's.
Those who say that the EU haven't strengthened the economy in Europe are blinded.
Those who say that the EU isn't about the people never spent time in another member-state.
Those who say that the EU is more bureaucratic then democratic don't want to change that.
Hungary's PM Orban have ever since his party Fidez came into power with a impressive 2/3 majority in the parliament, shown the rest of Europe that he don't have a problem with compromising on democracy, rule of law and freedom of press.
After the latest national election, Orban could secure the 2/3 majority, this have made him confident and clearer with his vision for Hungary.
In a resent speech Orban was very clear that he wants to build a "illiberal state" on nationalistic grounds. What he means with "illiberal" is clear, he wants to dismantle democracy and democratic values. Orban even goes as far as naming Russia and China as models on how to organize a nation.
It gets really scary when his 2/3 majority means that he actually has the power to change the Hungarian constitution.
Orban is without a doubt leading Hungary away from the modern, democratic Europe and towards a system, not for the people but for the state. Towards the dark ages of the 20th century.
It's time for the rest of the EU to make a stand on Hungary. Orban can't go in this direction and at the same time think that Hungary can stay in the union.
You can't criticise one side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without doing the same to the other side. If you don't, I dear to say that you are a hypocrite with ulterior motives. You don't need to be particularly, historically well-informed to understand that both sides are lost in a maze, in total darkness.
The killings have been going on for over a lifetime and will continue to do so until the international community are ready to assume full responsibility for the security of the people living in Israel and Palestine. History demands that the international community takes this responsibility.
The Gaza conflict puts us at the end of the road.
The EU's democratic legitimacy comes from the fact that the union was formed on voluntary treatys between European citizens, represented by their democratically elected gouverments. The treatys are based on common democratic values, common needs and our common challenges in the modern world.
There is no national state that can match those facts! The so-called nations have very seldom been formed by mutual desire and mutual agreement. No, most nations was born thru military power games, assimilation of people and by other interests that have very little to do with the common good.
Very few nations have remained constant since their formation. Democracy in Europe's nations have developed in different paste during the last 150 years, but with this democratic development the idea of a united Europe have been realized and the construction is still ongoing.
All Europeans must stand up for our freedom of movement. Our most important liberty is under attack by No 10. and other national leaders.
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