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• The last few months of living in Brussels, the
  capital of the European Union, have been an
  fascinating time. Outside, the financial economy
  appeared to be staggering from recession to
  disaster in the modern world and then back again.
  Our most respectable banks crumbled to ashes,
  worldwide securities went through a hair-raising
  nosedive, big corporations were virtually
  bankrupt, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs,
  and the worse was expected by millions of others.
  Do you want to learn more? Visit daily Europe
  news.
• Although you would hardly have realised it in the
  Brussels bubble. Of course, on our big,
  flat-screen TVs, we could track the
  entertainingly gory financial Armageddon
  unfolding, but it was more like seeing a new,
  star-studded, blockbuster disaster film than
  anything that was really occurring. As the world
  economy was tumbling on the edge of the brink,
  the European Parliament passionately discussed
  topics such as new timeshare regulations, the
  Tropical Timber Deal, the European Internet Music
  Distribution Authorization, the Unique Mountain
  Farming Policy, human rights in Vietnam, and
  whether the 'European Year of Imagination and
  Innovation' should be proclaimed in 2010.
• And as we were watching in dismay while our
  investments and pensions appeared to evaporate
  before our eyes, the European Commission released
  more than ten new laws a day covering any
  possible sector of our lives, including
  increasing customs duty to increase the price of
  several manufactured foods, forcing
  slaughterhouses to hire a full-time worker in the
  last few minutes to take charge of the safety of
  animals

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• Then the Brussels Euro-elite proceeded to go to
  luxurious champagne-fuelled receptions in the
  evenings, as if untouched by the financial
  crisis, after their busy days discussing heavy
  subjects and making new rules, before taking
  taxis to highly rated restaurants to feed
  themselves at the expense of taxpayers proceeded
  to flit from city to city to hold crucial
  meetings continued to travel around the
  taxpayers' expense. Have a look at British
  airways crisis news to get more info on this.
• Because of us or despite us?
• This might sound like an unreasonable point of
  discussion contrasting our euro leaders
  'luxurious, comfortable lifestyle with the
  concerns and struggles that some of us may face
  due to the recent financial crisis yet it does
  indicate that there might be a growing
  discrepancy between the Eurocrats' high-paying,
  low-tax, healthy lives and the fact that the
  majority of us have to wake up every morning.
  This the inequality could also cause European
  taxpayers to begin to question if the euro-elite,
  the citizens who pay their lavish wages, pensions
  and expenditures, work for us, or if we work for
  them to ensure their continued security and
  well-being.
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• The EU and its backers claim that their vision
  for a Europe that is much more unified has given
  us many advantages. They claim that the EU has
  played an significant political role both in
  preserving peace in Europe after decades of
  conflict and in establishing a base of unity for
  prosperity and independence on the continent,
  first for countries emerging from dictatorships
  such as Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (often
  referred to colloquially as the PIGS) and then
  for those escaping Communism, the PIGS. They
  maintain that the internal economy of the EU has
  broken boundaries, empowering citizens and
  products to pass easily, stimulating economic
  development and stability. And they are persuaded
  that the EU 's agricultural, market and
  environmental policies have managed to provide us
  with high-quality produce, healthy goods and
  healthier air and water. You can learn more at
  brussels this morning.
• The acts, morals and course of the European
  adventure, however, are starting to be debated by
  many other citizens. They say that it is NATO,
  the danger of Soviet aggression during the Cold
  War and the rise of independence that has
  sustained stability in Europe, rather than the
  EU. They refer to the endless stream of instances
  of EU greed, over-regulation, anonymity and
  bribery to show that an unaccountable, inept,
  unethical, self-serving hierarchy rules us. And
  others also identify with the opinion (generally
  credited to former Soviet leader Mikhail
  Gorbachev) that we are, maybe inadvertently,'
  re-creating the Western European Soviet Union.'

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