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The argument for a 'strong and powerful Europe' is backed by the assumption that such a huge political entity would be beneficial to its citizens. But the USSR was strong and powerful and this did not do much good to its citizens. Meanwhile, the US federal government has long taken over to create a centralised state - and as we shall see in the coming months, this did not do much good either. The EU fast-forwards the making of the USA, skipping the years when freedom really counted. Only the rejections of the EU constitution and its derivative, the Lisbon treaty has halted the EU somewhat (although the European Court of Justice is very gradually creating the necessary case law, and the Commission spearheads its executive branches, ready to be christened with real power).

If the single market is the key to success, then that has been achieved and there is little else an EU supranational government can do except for sponging the people of more taxes and regulating them to misery.

If you love Europe then you want it to be based on democratic principles, not on the principles of unelected supranational bureaucrats. A Free Europe means allowing more diversity and freedom by ensuring that the 27 national parliaments and the peoples they represent hold real power over the governance of their countries and the single market in general.

A free European area does not require full harmonisation of laws, for diversity and flexibility are crucial to social and economic progression. It does not need civil servants regulating the economy from Brussels, which can only lead to stagnation for economic planning does NOT work. It does not require centralised supranational bodies, like Europol, Eurojust or a European Public Prosecutor. Liaison and cooperation in such matters suffice. The EU does not need to become a single military power. Voluntary military alliances worked fine when Europeans fought eachother; they should work fine if a member state is threatened by forces outside the Union.

The Lisbon Treaty establishes the Union as an interventionist power that seeks to police the world through force.

A Union of Free States is only possible if no central authority is empowered to govern. Yet the Lisbon Treaty creates a new EU with a central authority that is not only empowered to govern the Union, but is also empowered to self-empower without the consent of the peoples of Europe. The Lisbon treaty is a self-amending treaty. When the EU Council desires, it is amended without EU summits, referendums or ratifications.

That is a very dangerous form of power, as history has supposedly taught us. But are the people aware?

Слава Eвропэйскому Союзу!
Slava Yevropeyskomu Soyuzu!

'There's something exciting in the air. A revolutionary spirit has erupted, and it will not be suppressed. We are involved in a historic event.' - Ron Paul, Rally for the Republic, 3 September 2008