Eurogroup
chairman, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, gave another proof of how much
Democracy has been degenerated inside the EU. He literally ignored
the call from the European parliament to show up to discuss the Greek
crisis, providing a lame excuse.
From
Dutchnews
:
Dutch
finance minister and Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem has come
under fire again in the European parliament for refusing to show up
to discuss the Greek crisis. French Christian Democrat MEP Alain
Lamassoure even went as far as to say Dijsselbloem should be declared
‘persona non grata’ at all EU parliamentary buildings, news
agency ANP reported. The MEPs are furious that Dijsselbloem refused
to debate the Greek crisis with them, with condemnation coming from
across the political spectrum.
Parliamentary
chairman Antonio Tajani said he will lodge a ‘formal protest‘ at
the snub. ‘Unanimous condemnation by @Europarl_EN against
@J_Dijsselbloem for the umpteenth refusal to answer questions on
sacrifices made by our citizens,’ Tajani said on Twitter.
Dijsselbloem,
who will meet fellow European finance minister’s at the Malta
summit on Friday, said he could not attend the debate because of a
scheduling conflict.
[...]
The
row comes as Dijsselbloem has been sounding out member states about
the option of staying on at the Eurogroup until next January, even
though he will soon lose the finance ministry job. He also came under
fire last month for telling the Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung that
solidarity between EU members involved getting budgets under control.
‘I cannot spend all my money on drink and women and then ask for
help,’ Dijsselbloem is quoted as saying.
As the
former Greek minister of finance, Yanis Varoufakis, revealed,
the real boss in the eurogroup is the German minister of finance,
Wolfgang Schäuble. Dijsselbloem is simply Schäuble's puppet.
Therefore, we have to assume that Dijsselbloem's provocative response
against the European parliament reflects the German stance against
the democratic institutions inside the EU.
Despite the
intensity of the statements against Dijsselbloem by many members of
the European parliament for his totally unacceptable behavior, it
appears that no one can move him from his position. Even the EP
president, Antonio Tajani, called
Dijsselbloem “provocative, insulting and
arrogant and said he behaves scandalously towards the EP, southern
European countries and women.”
Yet, Tajani,
restricted in sending a letter of "protest" to the
president of eurogroup, as promised to the MEPs.
Obviously,
the Brussels-Berlin axis has taken over the EU, driving it away from
democratic processes, as the German directorate struggles to impose a
model of hard austerity and sado-monetarism throughout eurozone for
the benefit of the German big capital, the lobbyists and the bankers.
However, Schäuble and his puppets refuse to see that this behavior
also drives Europe towards destruction.
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