EU elites refuse to abandon their failing ideology
FOR sheer obstinate refusal to grapple with the truth, it is staggering to see the president of the European Council Donald Tusk lecturing the world in his letter to the heads of government of the 27 EU member states who gathered yesterday in Malta.
The EU is in crisis. The member states do not trust one another nor do they trust the EU institutions. Above all, voters have turned against their own leaders and the EU in equal measure.
The EU leaders wrapped up in their self-delusion simply don’t get it. They should listen to Theresa May and pay up for Nato. At the very time when they need fundamental reform to try to stabilise this collapsing edifice, they do everything to achieve the opposite.
As I warned as far back as 1993: “As the neutering, under Maastricht, of national parliaments gathers pace, so the paralysis of the real Europe will give way to the prospect of the collapse of the rule of law, compounded by waves of immigration from the east, recession and lawlessness.”
I also warned of the rise of the far-Right and that “when monetary union collapses (as did the Exchange Rate Mechanism) there will be widespread chaos with massive political and commercial instability throughout Europe”.
Since then, with one treaty piled on top of another, from Maastricht to Lisbon, the EU and its leadership have created a massive compression chamber waiting to implode with incalculable consequences for those it claims to govern and for the rest of the world.
THE United Kingdom had to leave the EU. We had reached a point where it was clear it was not listening. It did not work for us. It could not and would not reform.
We had to assert our national interest, our own democracy and the sovereignty of our own Parliament, and the inalienable right of the British people to govern themselves.
So what did Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, say to these EU leaders in Malta as they prepared for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome on March 25?
His theme is “United we