Tony Blair Cleans House
I knew there were reasons for liking Tony Blair, in spite of his party affiliation. This is one of them.
Prime Minister Blair is absolutely correct on this one. The French, the Germans, the Spanish, all of them refuse to change. They enact tariff after tariff, and heavy taxes on their own people, in order to preserve their house of cards economic system. They refuse to embrace concepts like outsourcing and globalization. The only sensible government in Europe is the United Kingdom, and even the British citizens aren't pleased with the situation most of the time.
The European Union doesn't offer European citizens much in the way of incentive to support it, and the leadership cares more about lining their own pockets than they do about helping their constituency. The E.U. will be interesting to watch in the next year or two. Personally, I don't see it having much viability as things stand now, and I'm guessing it will continue to lose support unless there are drastic changes to the format and leadership of the organization.
The European Union faces a "crisis in political leadership" and must change to win back public support, Prime Minister Tony Blair has told Euro MPs.
Mr Blair, outlining plans for the UK's six-month EU presidency, argued the EU would fail "on a grand scale" if it did not face up to globalisation.
"Only by change will Europe recover its strength, its relevance, its idealism" and therefore public support, he said.
Prime Minister Blair is absolutely correct on this one. The French, the Germans, the Spanish, all of them refuse to change. They enact tariff after tariff, and heavy taxes on their own people, in order to preserve their house of cards economic system. They refuse to embrace concepts like outsourcing and globalization. The only sensible government in Europe is the United Kingdom, and even the British citizens aren't pleased with the situation most of the time.
The European Union doesn't offer European citizens much in the way of incentive to support it, and the leadership cares more about lining their own pockets than they do about helping their constituency. The E.U. will be interesting to watch in the next year or two. Personally, I don't see it having much viability as things stand now, and I'm guessing it will continue to lose support unless there are drastic changes to the format and leadership of the organization.
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