European Parliament to ban Eurosceptic groups
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The European Union assembly’s political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings.
Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP’s pan-European Eurosceptic “Independence and Democracy” grouping.
Under the rule change, the largest and msot pro-EU groups would tighten their grip on the Parliament’s political agenda and keep control of lavish funding.
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Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, claimed that the move goes hand in hand with the denial of popular votes on the new EU Treaty.
”Welcome to your future. This shows an EU mindset that is arrogant, anti-democratic and frankly scary,” he said.
”These people are so scared of public opinion they are willing to set in stone the right to ignore it. Freedom requires the governing elite to be held to account. They must be getting very worried if they are enacting such dictatorial powers for themselves.”
Here’s what they are trying to get rid of:
May 28th, 2008 at 18:39
All that is west.
Well, the EU wanted and needed the market made up by the former communist countries, that means, they have to put up with former communist functionaries.
Life’s tough.
Apart from that, well, what is the EU? I mean, it tries to be a government, but whose government?
The whole system was made for something else, now it is a bloated disfunctional apparate.