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Belgium, whose capital is also the capital of the European Union, currently holds the EU’s six-month presidency. On the 13th, 14th and 15th of December she will host a crucial inter-governmental conference at which the EU’s grand ambitions are : draft a European constitution, enlarging the Union to the east, public services and privatisation, arranging a common asylum, unemployment, education and immigration policy, and so on.
Always pushing for more liberalisation and further away from the people that they are meant to represent, this Europe has built itself an ivory tower. Isolated from the outside it conceals from the public eye the business men and “technocrats”, and the policymaking bureaucracy, corrupted by profit and power and lorded over by non-elected commissioners. This european power is neither transparent nor democratic.
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