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EU: From peace to war project [FIGU – Zeitzeichen SE 146]
https://www.figu.org/ch/node/4623 https://transition-news.org/eu-vom-friedens-zum-kriegsprojekt
EU: From peace to war project [FIGU – Zeitzeichen SE 146]
murfai-en_UK-female:
FIGU-Zeitzeichen Special Edition Number 146, March/3 2025
EDI:
EU: From peace to war project
murfai-en_UK-female:
The European Union is spending billions on armament instead of improving the living conditions of its 450 million citizens. Even long-term employees of EU institutions are now sobering up. «Transition News » could talk to one of them about another Europe.
murfai-en_US-female:
10. March 2025 by SMA. Reading time: 18 minutes.
img:https://transition-news.org/local/cache-vignettes/L879xH659/ex_erlebnis_europa_foto_sophia-maria_antonulas-5efbd.jpg
Transition News: Around 2010 you started as an intern at the European Union. In the meantime, you have experienced a certain disillusionment. What has changed?
Ernst Müller (name changed by the editors): At that time I still had the feeling that the boys who worked there all wanted to grow together. That was after the great eastward expansion of the EU, when the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic States, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia and also Cyprus joined. There was a kind of spirit of optimism.
At least a lot of disillusionment has come to me in the meantime, since I thought earlier that the European Union was a very clear peace project, – so it was always sold to us. One would have to call on people to listen to what the established politicians tell them in every European election: «Europe is a peace project. » Now in part of Europe's war – Ukraine is not part of the EU, but geographically it still belongs to Europe, as well as parts of Russia. And for a few weeks now we have also known that the wind is turning, that diplomatic talks are taking place again between the USA and Russia. But the European Union wants to continue to wage war and upgrade.
And, of course, my disillusionment comes to a certain extent from the fact that I have realized that many leading political parties, especially from a German perspective, are not necessarily concerned with peace. If you demand that one side, no matter which one, wins, then you demand the «victory ». And that has never worked out.
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EU: From peace to war project [FIGU – Zeitzeichen SE 146]
murfai-en_UK-female:
FIGU-Zeitzeichen Special Edition Number 146, March/3 2025
EDI:
EU: From peace to war project
murfai-en_UK-female:
The European Union is spending billions on armament instead of improving the living conditions of its 450 million citizens. Even long-term employees of EU institutions are now sobering up. «Transition News » could talk to one of them about another Europe.
murfai-en_US-female:
10. March 2025 by SMA. Reading time: 18 minutes.
img:https://transition-news.org/local/cache-vignettes/L879xH659/ex_erlebnis_europa_foto_sophia-maria_antonulas-5efbd.jpg
Transition News: Around 2010 you started as an intern at the European Union. In the meantime, you have experienced a certain disillusionment. What has changed?
Ernst Müller (name changed by the editors): At that time I still had the feeling that the boys who worked there all wanted to grow together. That was after the great eastward expansion of the EU, when the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic States, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia and also Cyprus joined. There was a kind of spirit of optimism.
At least a lot of disillusionment has come to me in the meantime, since I thought earlier that the European Union was a very clear peace project, – so it was always sold to us. One would have to call on people to listen to what the established politicians tell them in every European election: «Europe is a peace project. » Now in part of Europe's war – Ukraine is not part of the EU, but geographically it still belongs to Europe, as well as parts of Russia. And for a few weeks now we have also known that the wind is turning, that diplomatic talks are taking place again between the USA and Russia. But the European Union wants to continue to wage war and upgrade.
And, of course, my disillusionment comes to a certain extent from the fact that I have realized that many leading political parties, especially from a German perspective, are not necessarily concerned with peace. If you demand that one side, no matter which one, wins, then you demand the «victory ». And that has never worked out.