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Sounds like your usual quango power grab to me.
From my experience of trying to deal with the screwed up and corrupt entity known as the EU, the sooner countries go their own way - the better. Centralisation isn't the cure, fully distributed is the way.
Beyond region, beyond country, back to local accountability.
Hello Garyp,
I agree. If techno-advances and conservation [Plan A] can enlarge or sustain the myriad distribution spiderwebs plus the ecosystem--that is great. But if not, govts, at all levels, need a thoroughly detailed Plan B for 'graceful decline' to minimize the obvious blowbacks, and accelerate the paradigm shift to intense relocalization.
Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Dear garyp
Regarding corruption in the EU- and other places on planet earth please study the Transparency international annual index for corruption.
Can be downloaded here- I cannot figure out how to show graphs.
http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/global/cpi
Click on the english version for TI Corruption Perceptions Index 2006 media pack .
Table page 5.
You will notice that among the 20 least corrupt countries in the world ( US is no 20), there are 12 EU countries...
So even if corruption is a problem everywhere it is maybe not the biggest problem in the EU ....
Kind regards
And1
The individual countries may well be virtuous, but once they get together in the EU it all goes downhill into a mess of deals, backbiting, lies and pork barrel politics.
I'm not saying the corruption enriches the individual, but the gap between how its supposed to work and what actually happens could swallow the grand canyon. If you want to see the EU in miniature, watch the eurovision song contest.
The more power and money that is kept away from that lot, the more progress will be achieved.
Dear garyp,
The Eurovision metaphor is a very fortunate one, thank you, I wouldn’t remember a better one myself.
Here’s the clip from last year’s winners.
As you can see these folks come from Scandinavia, exactly where the Grid integration is having great results, allowing to take full advantage of the wind farms in Denmark and Germany.
Things do change, that’s I’m here wasting my time writing this stuff, instead of running to the hills.
Best.