by nv1962 | Noviembre 20th, 2002
The sinking of the Prestige, particularly the fumbling of public interests by administrations, might be considered an incident, which shouldn’t be held up as necessarily accusing the EU of lack of pro-active engagement of public safety.
Well, it’s true that oil tankers don’t sink every year in European waters. It’s also true that airplanes don’t collide in mid-air, every year, over Europe. But just as in the case of the Prestige, the debate over single European airspace control is just going on and on, year after year, with petty nationalist interests placed over safety, while grave accidents are waiting to happen, or simply happen without much further ado.
That’s what I meant, with my earlier remark that I’m “disgusted by handwringing” when such accidents happen. They needn’t and shouldn’t happen.
Guess who’s footing the bill when they do.
As long as national EU governments approach the EU from a provincial perspective, my accusation remains that the EU is mostly invented to give politicians and bureaucrats a bigger den to play in. Much in spite of my strong pro-internationalist instincts… It is the main reason for my anger and rejection of the EU as it is: ineffective, amorphous, non-responsive, presumptuous, undemocratic, and generally irresponsible. And addressing that requires an impulse much bigger than the word “reform” suggests.
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