Nationalization of the European elections: would the crisis be finished?

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Europe is confronted has a financial crisis and economic of which all the policies said to us that it was most serious since 1929 and that it required financial means of a dimension ever deployed in the past. Tops of G3, G5, G7 and G20 in European tops, our excellence spent most clearly the last twelve months to try to reform finance, to get rid of Anglo-Saxon capitalism and to transform our economy.

One could believe that these transformer topics of Europe would have animated a campaign where the long-term political solutions of this crisis would have been the stake of passionate debates and enthralling. Instead of these prone truths, the spectacle of these elections with the European Parliament was probably one of most lamentable of the European democracy.

Obviously, the fact of giving the right to vote with the European citizens is an excellent thing. But the way in which these elections are organized and politically conceived is a transvestite. It is for that, and not because the European citizens are not interested in Europe, that they ignore some. The “European” parties do not have coherence, and finally in fact national elections took place. It would be healthier to give up these elections rather than to make accept the European citizens than this is a European election.

Instead of that, Europe gave the indication of a disorganized continent and without common message. The subjects which are those on which the voice of Europe is essential, were replaced by the local political debates. Null mention of a change of the rules of the game or credit rating agencies. No debate on the system of remunerations or the future of the European economy. Not a word of the abusive means which one treats the consumer or of the health of the banks. In a word, to prevent that the European Parliament does not appear as a truth capacity (what it is) however), the policies preferred to camouflage this reality and to amount for the following elections.

The result is a weak participation, unimportant debates, and especially, the certainty which Europe will not count in the solution of the crises which occupy us. Once more, these elections are to be arranged with the wall cupboard of the meetings missed with the European citizens who will not have learned anything on Europe and in any case voted with their feet, by the abstention. And this, at one moment when obviously appears, which it is at the European level that the solutions must be found to reform our system economic and financial.

But perhaps am I naive? Perhaps is the crisis finished? Perhaps isn't Europe interested in the great economic issues and financial? In this case it will have only what it deserves: a “thing” as would have said Charles de Gaulle.