Daniel Hannan - Germany no longer needs Europe

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/european-dream

Writer and journalist, and Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999

Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist. He has been a Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999, winning re-election in the top slot in 2004 and 2009. In the European Parliament, he led the campaign for a referendum on the European Constitution. He was also the first MEP to write in detail about the allowances and expenses available in Brussels.

In March 2009, a YouTube clip of his speech to Gordon Brown in the European Parliament attracted 1.4 million hits within 72 hours making it by far the most watched political clip in British history.

Hannan was educated at Marlborough and Oriel College, Oxford. He worked as a speechwriter for William Hague and Michael Howard. He speaks French and Spanish, and is married with two young children. He has been writing for The Daily Telegraph since 1996, and also contributes to numerous other publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Washington Examiner, The Spectator, The Mail on Sunday, The Australian, The Catholic Herald, Die Welt (Germany) and Weltwoche (Switzerland).

He is the author of nine books of which the most recent -- The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America -- is a New York Times best-seller. He blogs every day at www.hannan.co.uk, addressing political and cultural issues. His blog attracts 200,000 hits a week from 80,000 unique users.

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[Lintflas]

Well Mr Hannan, actually there was never a time when Germany needed Europe.

[justgetsome]

This guy is fucking smart.

[DrNikol2007]

@justgetsome Read: NO PHILANTHROPY here.

[DrNikol2007]

@justgetsome 4/ Nobody gives money to Greece. Actually this money goes to the bankers who indebted Greece in sinister way. There is now philanthropy here.

[DrNikol2007]

@justgetsome 2/ In the same time Europe was broken into many small and week states with not enough resources for RD&A. Later the condition switched.

3/ In the beginning of the 20th century Western Europe was a represented by several colonial empires which were sucking wealth from all over the world. Today, Europe is still in this position but in lower proportion because it is neo-colonial system extracting moderate wealth from the world. Later in 21 cen. it’ll possible show its own capability.

[DrNikol2007]

@justgetsome 1/The reason of advantageous development of the science and technologies in the East was the opposite what this guy is saying. Science, technologies, and art need funding for Research develpement and art RD&A, which was possible just because the Eastern empires were strong and were taxing heavily the population so the government had money for RD&A. After these empires began deteriorate and brake apart this advance position was no more.

[DrNikol2007]

@justgetsome 0 /This guy is not so smart. He is so wrong and the Australian author E. L. Johns as well.

[Fre1maurer]

4000 BC: Sumer

3500 BC: Elam

3150 BC: Egypt

See Wikipedia (the German article about 'Hochkultur (Geschichtswissenschaft)' has a nice timescale).

You are studying this for years? Maybe in your dreams.

[whotrickedyouu]

@Fre1maurer ...Listen pal, I've studies this for years.

The main thing I would emphasis is the "facts" artifacts.

The ancient egytians left overwhelming monuments and

artifacts behind to demonstrate their inventive powers.

LONG BEFORE Iraq or babylon. You watch the history

channel - notice which ancient country they talk about

most? Well everybody already knows (except you) that

it's ancient egypt.

[1AnimalMother1]

@Vosbraka Yeah that sounds like a frightening scenario, I know some Serbs though that are quite a bit different than the kind of people you mentioned, positive and hopeful for a peaceful future.I hope they grow in numbers.