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2015-11-14 Europe

EU chief: Europe would be at war without the EU

War would break out if the European Union did not exist, Jean-Claude Juncker’s deputy suggested on Friday night. Frans Timmermans, the first vice president of the European Commission told an audience in Prague that history had shown that “all other forms” of politics in Europe “lead to war”.

My good man, I think you're already at war...

“There is an alternative to everything. I believe in European cooperation because I have seen all the other forms in history that have been tried to help European peoples get on better,” he said. “With the exception of this one, all the other forms lead to war. So let’s stick to this one.”

He warned that the EU is “not indestructible”. “Any political construction can be undone.”

Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, said the claim was “desperate” and accused the EU’s leadership of generating division.

Toxic clashes over Greece’s bailout and the migration crisis, and the prospect of British exit leave relations between member states at their lowest ebb in years. Some states blame Mr Juncker for driving through deeply unpopular migrant resettlement quota scheme, against the wishes of central and eastern Europe, for poisoning relations.

Mr Juncker admitted that it will take nearly a century for the relocation scheme he championed to be completed after a sluggish start. Out of a target of 160,000, fewer than 150 migrants have been moved from Italy and Greece to other EU states. Officials have found migrants refusing to take part because they are intent on going to Germany, or because they fear the removals planes will send them back to Africa.

“I am not at all satisfied with the pace of relocations at the moment. At this rate it will take until 2101 to relocated 160,000 people,” he said.

Posted by Steve White 2015-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Europe is at Peace now?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-14 04:19|| 2015-11-14 04:19|| Front Page Top

#2 “All other forms” of politics in Europe “lead to war”.
Just because the EU interregnum hasn't led to war yet doesn't mean there's not one coming.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-11-14 08:46|| 2015-11-14 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Papa Francis sez 3rd World War.

Posted by Shipman 2015-11-14 09:52|| 2015-11-14 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 nice graphic :-)

Posted by Frank G 2015-11-14 10:46|| 2015-11-14 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Apparently, after 75 years of living under the American security umbrella, any and all notions of self-preservation have been bred out of the Euro "elites."

Any Europeans who think Western culture, and ultimately their own lives, are worth preserving will have to attack in two directions.

Posted by PBMcL 2015-11-14 11:49|| 2015-11-14 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Europe would be at war without the EU..and without the Russians and Americans sitting on them for nearly fifty years.

This is starting to be like the old narrative about how bad colonialism was before local dictators and tyrants and fundamentalists like ISIS blowing up stuff and butchering people in the Third World. Geez, maybe, just maybe, it wasn't as bad as you thought it was. It wasn't the adults were the baddies, but what they were keeping away, which we are witnessing, wasn't utopia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-14 15:42|| 2015-11-14 15:42|| Front Page Top

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