Secret Squirrel On The European Union,To Be Or Not To Be,A Nation?

Secret Squirrel turns his attention to the strange entity,known as Europe,The European Union,as it’s called ,it’s formation and transition,from the economic union of the European Economic Community (EEC), to the presently evolving European Union (EU), and how it,Europe,a United Europe, regards itself and most definitely appears to be at the present time,a Nation,a single nation, a singularity,rather than a plurality, rather than a simple union,an old boys club as it were.Well it isn’t an old boys club, but rather,indeed, it is functioning as a single nation,indeed many time,s and at and on many levels.It does have a unified military command,the structure is there,yet each member nation state has it’s own internal army,even yet Navy, but functions in a unified force,directed, when it functions as NATO,visibly with respect to conduct directed at the oil rich Arab nations.

Picture this,a Europe,united,the European Union, has a central parliament,makes some laws for ALL to follow,and they must follow those, allows individual states of Europe to have their own local laws,as the United States does,as did the American
Confederacy.They appointed a President over it all,as it were, but the President is not elected out of the people of Europe, but rather in a form dictatorially appointed by representatives of the member national states of the European Union.The Confederate States of America, did much the same thing, first appointing a President out of their selection, then moving towards a form of
election of the President.There is no common Constitution, really as such,but then a much vaunted Constitution is a thing of paper off ignored,twisted and bent as suits item in either case, an artificiality,not really an indicator of anything at all
really,a mere superfluous trapping of an illusion of centrality of sorts.It has a common civil service (the European Commission), a single High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, a common European Security and Defense Policy, a supreme court (European Court of Justice — but only in matters of European Union law), a peacekeeping force (Eurofor), and an intergovernmental research organisation (the EIROforum with members like CERN). The European Space Agency counts almost all the EU member nations in its membership, but it is independent of the EU and its membership includes nations that are not EU members, notably Switzerland and Norway. The European Court of Human Rights (not to be confused with the European Court of Justice) is also independent of the Union. It is an element of the Council of Europe which, like ESA, counts EU members and non members alike in its membership.There are aspirations, the EU does have a flag, and an anthem,but people in Europe don’t seem to be waving things about, nor singing about them.

They are trying to develop a central common currency, in transition,and do have one ,the Euro,but not succeeding well there in terms of it’s declining faith/value internally and world wide, but in the due process entirely moving towards it.It’s currency structure is much that of the Confederate States Of America as it was, and Europe is presently.Each state of the Confederacy still did have and use it’s own currency, but yet also there was the agreed on unified currency,the Confederate Dollar.The appearance of a single currency in Europe is the first such monetary instrument since the Roman Empire.Financial the states(nations of Europe), maintain their own systems of taxation,and the European Parliamen Presidency has not levied a Federal income tax,in unanimity over all of Europe.Indeed individual states still control their own economies, and the confusion of their internal and separate external financial economic dealings disorganized to the extents there are individual “bankruptcies” occuring, which is heavily pressuring their common currency. indeed the United States also suffers internal “bankruptcies”(in reality,but not regarded as being such,one must keep up appearances),however their currency isn’t unduly pressured(it being the peg mark of the world presently and so sits as the untouchable prima donna,on a pedestal currency immune to such things as the common devaluation all the lesser bagmen currencies suffer from).

Now isn’t Europe as it is then structured as the United States,is really,and in terms of view of the American Confederate States,in having a Central Federal type of central government, thence also separate nation/state governments much as the American states are,(and the Confederacy was) and so shouldn’t it therefor be considered to be as ONE country, as it were, in all things? Now citizenship?Yes, it is possible to be a European Union citizen,besides beign a citizen in any specific country state, those of Europe ARE European Union citizens.Consider,The European Union (EU) consists of 27 individual countries, which entitles all citizens to live, travel and work in the country of their choice. Citizens can freely travel, work, retire, or just vacate without any problems in any EU country. The European Union provides individuals and families with choices that other individual countries around the world cannot offer. The “Single Market” that was created in 1993 states that people, money, services, and good can move freely within the European Union. Currently over 450 million EU citizens are provided with these options.The 27 EU
countries have different immigration programs in terms of foreign work programs,true,different ways to obtain citizenship,different unemployment rates,different inheritance of citizenship, and other official immigration programs which allows individuals to live in one or several EU country states. Some immigration programs can end with a citizenship while other programs are time limited and related to work or tourism. The advantage of citizenship in an EU country is that the laws and regulations of the EU is applicable to any country that you decide to live and work in.An individual who becomes a citizen of any EU country automatically is granted EU citizenship. EU citizenship is not a separate “national” citizenship, but is related to the individual’s rights in any of the 27 EU countries. For example, a citizen of Poland has the right to move to Spain and
work/retire legally. In short,the basic pattern here matches that of The United States of America,and the individual states that make it up.

Now should European Union be regarded as being a nation, a single nation, made up of unified country states? It functions as such to all intents and purposes, but not being regarded as such, the European Union nation has,most definitely,an unfair
advantage,say in sports for example, the Olympics.Why should each state of Europe be allowed to send so very many athletes there for, whilst the United States gets to send, by comparison, a very few? Most certainly this puts Europe at an enormous advantage in terms of the so-called, thence, International sports,the so called World Cups. Shouldn’t also Europe,the European Union, then be forced to close hundreds of diplomatic missions etc abroad, and then be forced to have one in each,the European Embassy etc as does the United States,and Australia etc and other separate nations? Shouldn’t, indeed,Europe be forced to ONE seat at the United Nations,ONE seat on all United Nations Committees of whatever kind,and,of course, ONE seat on the Security Council as well, in keeping with global propriety and fairness to ALL the other nations of the world?Shouldn’t the European Union, as it is, be forced to be regarded as a single nation and treated as such ,in fairness to all nations of the world?

Presently,maintaining an unofficial Confederated States Of Europe,puts Europe at a distinct advantage in the way things work.One readily sees this in the example of the Olympics and the World Cup, the deck is most definitely stacked in favour of all things European. And so too, thence, in bodies such as The United Nations, the deck is stacked in Europe’s favour,in any and all votes, Europe has a far larger number votes thence, and more votes are good votes.In manners of keeping up appearances a few states must vote against. In the security council, Europe has a total dominating,controlling role.In the world militarily,such as in the present on going domination of the Arab oil states, the instrument of the European NATO is seen as a deciding,determining, factor,all the while still having the aura,illusion, of the activities not of a single driven entity,but that of separate nations merely acting as one. Indeed,there is the old adage, there is safety in numbers, the greater the numbers the better,but in plurality there is dissension,the confusion of the many-headed Hydra, whilst in singularity,there is drive,motive,direction. Indeed one can only ponder, what direction is Europe taking.

Secret Squirrel Considers The Problem Of The Euro

Secret Squirrel here ponders Europe’s,The EEC’s, The European Union’s, The European Confederacy’s,currency,the Euro(also known as the Ecu), and their individual currencies, et all. In short, here we are taking up,Eurology, also known as taking the piss out, as Euro IS Greek for
piss, and very close to the actual truth it is as well.Firstly we have to ponder and consider what Europe as it presently is, is, in reality.Well, they don’t claim to be a country, but they do have a unified Parliament, with an elected but appointed (as of lately),President,(the people don’t get to vote, the States do, much as did the American Confederacy),and this parliament can rule, overrule the individual nations that make it up, in short, and in right proper terms, it is not specifically a nation as the United States is, not a Union as it were, but a Confederacy as it was, and as Europe is. Fine, so in structure, it seems they wish everybody to believe that they are separate, and individual,but and not a collected aggregate of states, as in the individual states of America, and so The United States, in the American Union.However they ALL must follow the rules of the Parliament, laws etc etc etc.If there is dissent, with a law,
the problematic law can be avoided in implementation in that location,but only for a time, and then must be conformed with.Militarily they seem to presently be able to control their individual armies, but we notice reductions taking place, particularly in England.They have not gone to what seems not to be, a unified military command,nor uniformed unified military.

Out of the European ,military alliance, this NATO, with some outside Europe member, and out of the EEC,The European Economic Union, was born,actually, the present entity that this so-called so-called United Europe is. It was out of this Unification of sorts, though it may be of all sorts, very much out of sorts, they derived the idea,of some
sorts, of a common currency, The EURO. Indeed the idea was simplistic, a Euro was worth so much of the nation state’s own currency.The basis was the fact that the many currencies of the world seemed to be pegged against the dollar, the US dollar, in short their value fluctuated against this fixed dollar,being worth so much against the dollar and compared with and to the dollar.

In practice, and reality, this was the same then for all member states, they could, for a time, continue to use and keep their own currency, but also use this second common currency,of fixed value, their currency being worth so many of their monetary units versus it, versus The Euro, the single Euro.In good time, the idea was to thence eventually abandon the state currency and use only the Euro.

It works in theory.It worked for America, as the individual states all had their own currency bfore they went to their common dollar.It worked at the time of the collapse of The American Confederacy which used their Confederate Dollar,when the Confederated States were absorbed,by military defeat, in to the United States, The Union as it were.So it works, and did work, in practice. But then there’s the reality of Europe,today, where nothing and nobody seems to work.Is the Euro in trouble? Yes, it’s value has gone down, fluctuated as it were and is. But why?Remember the value of anybody’s dollar or whatever you choose to call it, is purely artificial, it’s value is anything anybody in particular wishes to accept it’s value as being at any given time.Currency is just that, based on the barter system, a potato is worth so many dollars,based on the potato in question, at time of urchase, it can be worth more or less, depending on acceptance. Now, what is causing the Euro not to be so accepted? Well, there is this thing called the economy,which encompasses all goods and services,governmental expenditures,imports,exports,the GDP(Gross Domestic Product….they seemed to prefer this to GNP which formerly was known as The Gross National Product).

Now of the 23 European Union nations, 16 of those use the Euro,as well as several outside the European Union,but here we’ll deal only with those, and their GDP percentile national debt……

Austria           70.40%
Belgium           98.60
Cyprus            61.20
Estonia            7.70 (gee is this’n ever an embarrassment to Europe).
Finland           45.40
France            83.50
Germany           78.80
Greece           144.00
Ireland           94.20
Italy            118.00
Malta             72.60
Netherlands       64.60
Portugal          83.20
Slovakia          41.0
Slovenia          35.50
Spain             63.40

So the total of GDP percentile debt for European Union nations using the Euro, for the Euro, means the Euro European Union has a GDP percentile debt of 72.63% for their agregate GDP.At the formation and attempts to convert to the euro, the euro was run in parallel to the existtant currencies,and things went understandably downhill from there. The national debts of the nations using the Euro rose, and as the debt rose, so then did the value of the Euro fall,falling to the extent that today it is considerered to be a failed currency.Countries that play by the rules can collapse, and yet countries that run up wild debts,ever increasing such as the US, and Japan can remain stable for a lot longer than what math would suspect,their currencies still stable,you see the issue is political,not financial.You see in Europe, the European Union, there is really no central bank internally to control things,there is no central European Treasury with centralised economic and fiscal policy,so all the nations indulged in wild uncontrolled economic spending,particularly, Greece,Italy,Portugal,Ireland,Spain.It is now no longer a question of will the Euro fail, but rather when will it fail.The poorly led weak European governments lacked the essential backbone to take the decisions needed for essential economic reform,restraint, and in place of deficit reductions, engaged in policies increasing deficits with wild,uncontrolled abandon.The Euro,which was seen as a strong central currency within Europe, taking the place of the US dollar, all currencies revolving around it,the currencies rising and falling against it, was in fact not so.

Instead it was the currencies who cumulatively pulled down the value of the Euro globally.Any new attempts at debt restructuring will devalue the Eurozone currency in the same way as several south American countries have in the past.Should the Euro fail,
then a unified Europe,as an attempt as a Union( as the United States)will also fail, and simply become a reversion to the EEC(the European economic Union),a loose Confederacy,(as The American Conferacy).The monetary union WILL fail as each member states debt increases, and as those who join, similarly suffer from debt increases which are in fact inevitable due to the times……..recession has, and will ,kill off the European economic Union.In good economic times, the differences could just
about be accommodated but the tensions became unsustainable when the Great Recession hit.The euro is defective because it seeks to bind together disparate countries which run their economies in very different ways.The attempt at monetary union came at the wrong time, it came at recession,that, and coupled with a lack of central monetary and fiscal policy,there was no ability inEurope to regulate in controlled centralized fashion(as with a single nation),the member states economic activities,and so  it
was doomed to failure,failure since all and each of the individual currencies of the member states and resultant debt overprinting of said currencies,influences and brings down the Euro itself, rather than having the currency itself devalued against the Euro internally.

Secret Squirrel On The Problem Of The Euro And What It Really Isn’t.

Secret Squirrel turns his attention to the present problem of Europe,the Euro, and seemingly collapsing economies of individual Europe nation states,which,in fact, threaten to destroy the Euro itself.Well, why is the Euro in trouble and what was the Euro supposed to be?

The Euro was seen to be a common currency for all Europe, similar in nature to the American dollar with respect to the American States,and so the Euro was to be to Europe and the Unified European states,an equality,and equity,a common, and the common,currency.It works in theory,it works, in concept. It is an idea that should work. What you do, is maintain a two tier system, a system whereby the individual states keep their own currency and economy,and system of economics, and simply tie their currency, each individually and collectively, but separately to a common currency, the Euro. What needed to be done, was simply to keep their own state currency, and have items purchasable in state currency, but also have a suitable value for the Euro against the state currency,maintaining as it were, and individual currency pegged to and against the common currency, the Euro.So in Greece, you could purchase in either the Euro value, or the Greek currency,all things then being equal, in terms of purchasable power value.It could also be applied in inter-state trade etc, as is done in America. However, they systems not being equal, it commenced to, it has commenced to, unravel, and things will get worse, not better.But why?Because the Euro is tied to the individual state currencies, and not the state currencies to and against the Euro as it was supposed to be. Let’s examine what has exposed the problem,the reality of things,and determine the actual reasons why the Euro is failing,for there are more reasons than just one reason.

What with Portugal,Italy,Iceland,Greece,Spain(The PIIGS of Euro-pe),and the threat to their EURO, there is evidence that Europe is itself failing, economically,and financially.They begin to see that with respect to a common currency,they were all better off with their own,individual,state,free market,with their own currencies evidently and in reality, just maintaining an EEC,a European Economic Community,a
Unified Defense Force,and a Unified Political Policy Parliament,but not with a unified currency.The Euro itself sees, fro it’s point of view, that it is in itself better off if there are no other currencies tied to it, that is, were it by itself, the only currency.But it is not the sole currency, and therein lies part of the problem.Europe is a financial failure then?Nay, a complete and utter disaster. The Euro and Europe was an attempt, a unified attempt,to counter, the USA,with its Unified States, and a strong central common currency.However,Europe did work as a Unification of States, but failed as a currency.Why? Well, their own currencies, and ultimate currency(the Euro), are, in fact, based on, and measured against, a common currency, yes, but it is the US dollar and the system of the Treasury Certificate that the Americans use, their economic and financial system, their system of printing Treasury Certificates.What’s happened in Europe that it must bow to this system of the Americans,why and how?Well,the present claim is that the PIIG states of Europe, overprinted,overspent, disregarded debts etc etc etc et all.Well, yes they did, and so to do and will the rest, and they will fail.Why? Again, they are up against their own creation, their own accepted creation, the USA and its currency. You see, all things European are measured against the US dollar. Should the US dollar have been similarly tied to the Euro, the United States and it’s currency would have been in trouble.Why? Well, the American system is simply to, whenever it requires money, to print up Treasury Certificates, of any value it needs, and then it goes to the Treasury Department, which accepts the Treasury Certificate, at the value of the Certificate, files it away, and prints up the stated currency of the certificate.So, the United States has the money it needs, and a massive debt, to it’s own Treasury Department, and an ever increasing, limitless value debt, on ever printed up currency. BUT for Europe it’s different, the Euro-peans are controlled by the US dollar, not their own, and don’t have a similar system of simply printing up certificates to add more currency as they need, to their system.The European Prometheus,has been self tied, and bound,for and
by, playing with fire, for playing economics and finance against and with the Americans and their system, of economics and debt,bound to and by, the currency and system of the Americans, which they,the Europeans, cannot themselves emulate.Europe has and is failing due to it’s belief in a dream system, a system which economically works. The Americans are themselves not tied and bound in that belief, they are tied and bound only by the life of their Treasury Certificate printing press,or whatever company prints them up for the American government, and by the seemingly limitless supply of printer’s ink.The Euro cannot compete with such a  system,it cannot exist against such a system, unless,it emulates such a system………complete and utter conversion.Quite simply all states of Europe must give up all hope against such a system, give up their currency, all Europe goes to the Euro, and all states go to the economics of the US system,at the state level as well.It must be complete and utter emulation,a complete mirror image in all things. What we have presently with the Euro is an attempt to emulate the US system without actually using the US system, and it just won’t work any other way.Unless that is done, the Euro is doomed to failure.

Secret Squirrel On The European Union

Secret Squirrel has studied Europe,The European Union,as it’d called it’s formation and transition and how it regards itself and most definitely appears to be at the present time,a Nation rather than a simple European Economic Union (EEC).
Picture this, Europe,united,the European Union, has a central parliament,makes some laws for ALL to follow,laws ALL must follow,and allows individual states of Europe to have their own local laws,as the United States does,as if now made up of separate governed states,collected under a unified central Federal government.They appointed a President over it all,as it were, but the President is not elected out of the people of Europe, but rather in a form dictatorially appointed by representatives of the member national states of the European Union.The Confederate States of America, did much the same thing, first appointing a President out of their selection, then moving towards a form of election of the President,and indeed very much having actually seemingly patterned their governmental unified for, much as The Confederacy of the United States as it was,even yet in it’s evolution. They are trying to develop a central common currency, in transition,and do have one ,but not succeeding well there in terms of it’s declining faith/value internally and world wide,much as the Confederate currency did,interestingly enough, but continue in the due process entirely moving towards it. Now isn’t Europe as it is then structured as the United States(Confederacy also),is really,in having a Central Federal type of central government, thence also separate nation/state governments much as the American states are, and so shouldn’t it therefor be considered to be as ONE country, as it were, in all things, in sports for example, the Olympics, why should each state of Europe be allowed to send so very many athletes therefor, whilst the United States gets to send, by comparison, a very few? Shouldn’t also Europe then be forced to close hundreds of diplomatic missions etc abroad, and then be forced to have one in each, etc as does the United States? Shouldn’t, indeed,Europe be forced to ONE seat at the United Nations,ONE seat on all United Nations Committees of whatever kind,and,of course, ONE seat on the Security Council as well, in keeping with global propriety and fairness to ALL the other nations of the world?Shouldn’t the European Union, as it is, be forced to be regarded as a single nation and treated as such ,in fairness to all nations of the world?