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Now actually that is a bit of a rhethorical question because I think it is quite obvious that it already is not really democratic with a weak parliament that is more often not asked to decide when the EU commission makes a decision - and then all member states feel obliged to follow these regulations made in that undemocratic way. Often things happen very obsured, MOPs may only read certain proposals of new regulations in a closed decure room and are not allowed to talk about it to the public and so on. And it is becoming more nationalist and fascist as can be seen by the reecent years worth of pushes for censorship laws, crackdown on immigration, ACTA, data retention, contracts with the US to deliver passenger lists of air travel and information on bank accounts. And some states like Hungary but also it seems Scandinavian countries are increasingly nationalist as well. The UK is a joke anyways in that respect with their internet censorship laws, CCTV everywhere and recently they seem to think about privatizing large part of their police force and give private contractors the right to detain people and investigate crimes. Denmark had a little lapse recently when their internet censorship firewall accidentially blocked google and a number of other large webservices.
But now to the current videos that brought me to bring this up again: Here is an incredibly strange ad by the EU. They pulled it back after they saw that people are not ready to swallow that much xenophobia yet, but it is still out there on youtube: EU enlacement ad - YouTube (It depicts coloured people from other countries like Asia, Africa and the Middle East as male attackers against a female European white person who then defeats them by multiplying - and then she herself becomes just another star in the banner) And some stuff about the EU financial situation and the decline of democracy by shutting people and even legislation out of the process of how to deal with debt, new money, tax money etc: EU: Treaty of debt (ESM) - stop it now! - YouTube It seems to be valid, though maybe a bit hyperbole in leaving out other parts. Still it is scary to see how that huge sums of money are thrown around when no one really has any and how that whole thing is then protected by a set of immunity laws that protect participants of these commissions. That has nothin at all to do with democracy or even a state of law if people are excempt from judicial processes, law and executive force. It makes sense if peoples privacy is in peril, like with lawyers and doctors - but not with financial decisionmaking. So I see that even from within the EU the signs are visible (from outside maybe they are even obvious) that the EU is going the same path as the US in these times of crisis - namely turning towards a politics of isolation, nationalism, nondemocracy, authoritarianism and sacrifices liberty and freedom to safety, security and profit.
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