{"id":25605,"date":"2017-09-14T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25605"},"modified":"2017-09-14T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:56:34","slug":"the-only-real-europe-is-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25605","title":{"rendered":"The Only Real Europe is Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nEugene Delacroix Greece expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi <\/b>1826<\/center>European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, famous for his imbibition capacity and uttering -not necessarily in that order- the legendary words \u201cwhen it becomes serious, you have to lie\u201d, presented his State of the Union today. Which is of pretty much limited interest because, as Yanis Varoufakis\u2019 book \u2018Adults in the Room\u2019 once again confirmed, Juncker is nothing but ventriloquist Angela Merkel\u2019s sock puppet.<\/p>\n

But of course he had lofty words galore, about how great Europe is doing, and how that provides a window for more Europe, in multiple dimensions. Juncker envisions a European Minister of Finance (Dutch PM Rutte immediately scorned the idea), and he wants to enlarge the EU by inviting more countries in, like Albania, Montenegro and Serbia (but not Turkey!).<\/p>\n

Juncker had negative things to say about Britain and Brexit, about Poland, Prague and Hungary who don\u2019t want to obey the decree about letting in migrants and refugees, and obviously about Donald Trump: Brussels apparently wants \u2018to make our planet great again\u2019.<\/p>\n

What the likes of Jean-Claude don\u2019t seem to be willing to contemplate, let alone understand or acknowledge, is that the EU is a union of sovereign countries. The meaning of \u2018sovereignty\u2019 fully escapes much of the pro-EU crowd. And if they keep that up, it will break the union into pieces.<\/p>\n

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary must accept their migrant \u2018quota\u2019, as decided in Brussels, and that, too, constitutes an infringement on these countries\u2019 sovereignty. And don\u2019t forget, sovereignty is not something that can be divided into separate parts, some of which can be upheld while others are discarded. A country is either sovereign or it is not.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Only Real Europe is Greece Eugene Delacroix Greece expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi 1826European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, famous for his imbibition capacity and uttering -not necessarily in that order- the legendary words \u201cwhen it becomes serious, you have to lie\u201d, presented his State of the Union today. Which is of pretty much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[40,279,281,9910,1167,6065,7007,3318,15988,8664,13924,4343,1510],"class_list":["post-25605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-austerity","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fire-sale","tag-greece","tag-investors","tag-juncker","tag-merkel","tag-mob","tag-property","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-sock-puppet","tag-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25606,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25605\/revisions\/25606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}