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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 7, 2022 2:35:01 GMT
The EU’s plan for mandatory gas rationing is utterly terrifying. The EU’s 27 member states – all modern, advanced industrialised economies, some among the richest in the world – are about to start rationing their energy supplies. This week, at an extraordinary summit, EU members agreed to a European Commission proposal to slash their gas use by a punishing 15 per cent over the next eight months. From August 2022 to March 2023, the lamps will, quite literally, be going out all over Europe - The crippling gas cuts to come are not a sign of European strength and solidarity. They are an irrational, dangerous reaction to a crisis decades in the making. And they will leave a lot of ordinary Europeans out in the cold. www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/27/the-lights-are-going-out-across-europe/It's a brief, but interesting read.
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Post by buccaneer on Dec 7, 2022 6:39:27 GMT
From the article:
As Politico reported in the run-up to this week’s summit, European governments were ‘being asked to sign over their right to energy sovereignty’, in Brussels’ ‘most far-reaching power grab’
The measures are being rushed through using emergency protocols, which mean no country will be able to veto the plan and the European Parliament will have no say.
The technocrats love a crisis. They thrive on it. Every crisis the EU comes across it tries to convince national democracies to give up 'ever more sovereignty' to the unelected technocrats.
Germany dictating the terms:
So clearly, Germany is in a deep crisis. And via the EU, it is asking (or strong-arming) its European neighbours to share some of the pain.
Some fellow member-states were quick to spot the irony in what is effectively an energy bailout of Germany. This is the same Germany that, during the Eurozone debt crisis of the 2010s, insisted that indebted countries had only themselves
and their profligacy to blame. Bailouts were offered but strict austerity measures and so-called structural reforms were attached, which laid waste to the southern European economies. The economies of Greece, Italy and Spain have never
recovered to their pre-2010 levels. As Spain’s energy minister put it, when hitting back against the proposals last week: ‘Unlike other countries [ie, Germany] we have not been living above our energy means.’ Spain was joined by a
host of other southern countries in voicing public opposition to the energy-rationing plans. But, as the Spanish energy minister acknowledged, whatever her protestations, the core proposals were really ‘a fait accompli’.
Berlin usually rules in Brussels, after all.
Thank fuck we left.
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Post by Pacifico on Dec 7, 2022 7:57:28 GMT
Certainly the reaction from the southern States is interesting - that combined with the rejection of German leadership by the eastern member States over Ukraine signals that EU unity is fraying at the edges..
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Dec 7, 2022 8:57:52 GMT
From the article: ...The measures are being rushed through using emergency protocols, which mean no country will be able to veto the plan and the European Parliament will have no say...
Just wait for the usual numpties to tell us how much more democratic the EU is than the UK. 🙄
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