British prosperity: nothing to do with the EU ?
Poster recently sighted at Zurich airport
...but most of it came from the EU
.....so why try to reverse it ?
EUROPEAN PRIZE COUDENHOVE-KALERGI 2020
given to President of Romania Klaus Iohannis
EUROPEAN LETTER OF THE ES-CK - EUROPEAN SOCIETY COUDENHOVE-KLERGI
PRESS RELEASE
EUROPEAN PRIZE COUDENHOVE-KALERGI 2020
given to President of Romania Klaus Iohannis
The European Prize Coudenhove-Kalergi 2020 will be awarded to His Excellency Mr. Klaus Werner Johannis, President of Romania on 4 March 2020 in Bucharest. The members of the European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi have decided on the 31st of October 2019 to give this Prize to President Johannis for his outstanding merits as a politician, who, through his dedication to European values, contributes decisively to the deeper integration of Romania into the community of European states. His political action has an exemplary function for a formerly divided Europe. Already as mayor of Sibiu/Hermannstadt Mr. Johannis has shown his European spirit, not least by his engagement for naming his hometown European Capital of Culture.
See also http://www.coudenhove-kalergi-society.eu/
Thank you Europe !
In the late 80s and early 90s Boris Johnson as the Brussels correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (and former European School pupil in Brussels) regularly wrote vitriolic articles vilifying EU officials as “Brussels sprouts”. One of their supposed sins was that they made daily life for Mr and Mrs Everyone more difficult by inventing a continuous stream of arcane regulations and directives. The curvature of cucumbers is the most famous example. But even if true, the basis for these rules was the European Commission responding to the legitimage needs of directly concerned actors such as trade organizations. They additionally took into account relevant inputs from environmental organizations. In other words, for the “common market” to continue functioning efficiently, the Brussels bureaucrats were doing their job at a high level of qualification. Their staffing levels - something else Johnson ridiculed - compared extremely favourably, on a head count basis, with most other bureaucracies in member states.
In the light of current developments during Britain's departure from the EU, the common market appears to be something very worthwhile for everyone.
The above video poster recently sighted at Zurich airport (which cost the British taxpayers a pretty penny, by the way) affirms that it was “free trade” disassociated from the EU that achieved welfare for postwar Europe. This seems downright comical in the light of the true facts.
What are “true facts” in this day and age ? Only when lorries pile up from Dover to London, supply chains and medical services fall apart, and border troubles in Northern Ireland restart will it dawn on those unwilling to think complicated thoughts that Britain had already chosen Europe. To reverse this choice is self-harming in a profound way. To draw lines all centering on the British isles in an advertising poster is definitely not the remedy.
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