If one follows the historical trail of the American mentoring of Germany and Japan, its two proteges, who had been signalled out to be the fulcrum of reassembling the economic zones of influence in Europe and Asia, along with the Marshal Plan, these countries were to be the driving force in recycling the American Dollar and relieving the imbalance of dollars held in Europe and Asia after the Marshal Plan had poured millions of dollars into each zone as a cost of rebuilding after the war.
The cartel called the "European Coal and Steel Community" was an American fostered idea to stimulate the enormous industrial power of German industry, Krupp, Siemens, Volkswagen, AEG into a trans-national cartel where trade prices and the bottom line were decided in the cartels, largely German boardrooms. The Brussels based plutocracy was born as a balancing act between France and Germany. German economic and industrial prowess offset by giving the French the Admin.
The history of trying to find a solution to Germany's industrial clout, stimulated initially by the Americans and then sustained by the creation of a single European market into which it could sell its goods, bodes ill for anyone else in Europe because of the simple fact too much power in a single nations hands distorts the mechanism of democracy where actual power is supposed to lie in the hands of the electorate.
The Commission is not only unelected it is "unimpeachable", it has no checks and balances even its financial accountability is suspect since no auditor, worth his salt has signed off on the books.
In my opinion it's powers up until now, have been as much for the benefit of the ordinary man and woman in the street as the corporate agenda.
It's not all bad, The rules which are forced on the British and are the constant rage of certain newspapers, cover many things which the British Parliament have been criminally ineffectual at. Working time directives, maternity arrangements, pension protection are but a tiny few of the fundamental ingredients which I believe an elitist British Parliament would not have considered important, (unlike its concern over fox hunting say).
The voice of the European Parliament which draws its members from a wider spectrum of human opinion is perhaps wiser than our more restrictive representation in Westminster, which sadly, more clearly represent the 'USA style', 'individualism', me and mine, with scarcely a thought to the other !
I think the EU up to date has done a good job but it's the future I worry about.
The increasing polarisation around a German agenda.
The undoubted problems regarding the further expansion of the EU (no doubt driven by the German need to expand its captive market). This is especially so as the new nations become more disparate in terms of their and our culture.
The insistence of the free movement of people and the pressures it places on all aspects of a member countries infrastructure.
I think the project which started as an American rebuilding program has got out of hand.
The corollary is a Federal State but this seem to weigh against the European Union since unlike the American Constitution which drew together peoples of a similar background and faith, the objective in the EU ignores the culture and the ingrained fundamentals within each country, going back centuries, the principals of which people recognise themselves.
The bottom line is, does one over time want to see ones national character, for good or bad subsumed into a Germanic concept of what is seen to be right or wrong. A bookkeepers precision for the specifics but loosing sight of the humanity which lies beneath the figures. Look at how Germany treated Greece.
Is our bumbling society worth saving. It was in 1939 or have we lost the confidence to say we can strike out on our own. Perhaps it will effect the pound in our pockets but at least it's "our pound" !!!
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