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00302: FW: [cicdd] EU Referendum and EU Constitution
From: |
"Laila Ciogolea" <Laila.Ciogolea(at)mie.ro> |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2005 13:02:39 +0300 |
Subject: |
FW: [cicdd] EU Referendum and EU Constitution |
Dear
all,
Let me
indroduce myself first. I live and work in Romania, a former communist country,
and by consequence in a fresh democracy. Although Mr. Thomson is
right in every respect, I would dare say that politics like administration
should not be managed by citizens who have not skills and are not certified
for these fields of activity. I work in administration and, watching the
requirements in applying for a job in terms of studies and expertise for
the junior experts, I wonder why the president and the parliamentaries are not
required to be first and foremost experts in administration. They are
everything but not what it takes. As a consequence, their aim is not the
wellbeing of the people but their own wellbeing and their target is their
own business. As a result, people watch them becoming rich, as they, the
voters are becoming poor. The elections are like in antiquity in Rome. Nobody
knows anything about managing a country but everybody has the right to take a
political decision, and they do not know what is the difference
between socialists, liberals and democrats. Their doctrine is electing "who
promisses more".
As far
as "the European project" is concerned I think it's a little utopic but
it might be worth trying. Romania is endevouring to modernize and to
adopt European legislation
We are
entitled by our culture and highly skilled labour force. I know that the Roma
population (which is provided by all the East European
area in fact) spoiled our image. Europeans don't know about George Enescu
(famous composer who lived in Paris), Mircea Eliade (great religion and
philosophy professor who lived in New York), Brancusi (famous sculptor who
lived in Paris), mathematicians in the Silicon Valley, etc. but are scared
by the Roma people because our ellites remained home to build and to work and
the people without jobs fled over borders.
Increasing GDP and maximising profits are targets in
all forms of governance, but the question is for whom? For a few individuals or
for all the citizens? Or the profit ought to be shared between the
workers...?
That's
enough I think,
Laila
Ciogolea ... in Bucharest, Romania (www.spirit.ro), where global warming
it's at its own home
Laila Ciogolea
+40
(0) 21-3011513
+40
722-478157
-----Original Message-----
From: C THOMSON
[c.thomson1(at)btinternet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:12
AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: Re: [cicdd] EU
Referendum and EU Constitution
Dear All
As a latecomer to this conversation, I find myself agreeing with
everyone and disagreeing with everyone at the same time. Strange? Yes, but true.
I live in Europe, albeit in the reluctant appendage known as the UK. As you
all know, most of the people who voted in the recent UK General Election do not
have their views represented in the the new government of Tony Blair, because of
the electoral system. The majority of us here, especially in my home country
Scotland, are not neoliberals or neoconservatives (it's odd, but these two words
apparently mean the same thing). So that's the first point of agreement and
disagreement. We have "democracy" in Europe, but in nearly all the member states
it's a very odd form of democracy, in which the views of a minority prevail over
the majority. It's causing a lot of resentment and disillusionment, and those in
minority power clearly have no incentive to change the system.
The second point of agreement-disagreement concerns economics and
"prosperity". It's quite true that there's more money swilling around than ever
before in human history, but I cannot help noticing that inequality is
increasing, that people seem unhappier than they were a few decades ago, that
mental and emotional illness are at record levels, and that the planet and all
life on it are more threatened than ever. We may be the richest species on the
planet, but we are also the most dangerous and destructive. We have managed to
cause at least 15 holocausts in the last three hundred years, many of them much
bigger than the Nazis-Jews holocaust of the 1940s. We make great white sharks
look gentle by comparison
So, I have to question the "European project". I am all in favour of people
living in peace with each other. But I do wonder whether a project designed
mainly to increase GDP and maximise profits for eternity is really what human
beings were designed for.
Best wishes
Chris Thomson....in Edinburgh, Scotland, where global warming manifests as
global cooling and global wetting
Chris Thomson
Landline: +44 (0) 131-447-9356
Mobile: +44 (0)
7961-968888
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