(By Massimiliano D'Elia) Attached to that TV that feeds us on everything we don't need, there are many Italians who often hear about the news between one news program and anotherXNUMX-XNUMX business days imagining it as an immense organization of bureaucrats and controllers, located in the center of Europe and which does not settle on anything.
The European Union is a not so complex organization that is made up of Commission, the Council, of the Parliament and External Service. To these macro structures are added a myriad of agencies which, as if the thousands of officials who keep those joints alive, are not enough to deal, even more specifically, with particular sectors of interest such as defense, trade, agriculture, fishing etc. The Commission alone has over 25 thousand employees and managers, 7022 external, 2477 for the translation service and 2243 for the common research center. The Parliament, on the other hand, has 7820 of them. The Council has about 3500 employees, most of whom are part of the General Secretariat.
These bloated organizations of men who have become the lair of the cynical and impassive bureaucracy are housed in numerous glass buildings which are divided - mainly - between Bruxselles and Strasbourg. In those glass buildings where respect for the rules is worth more than the future and the life of a people - and Greece knows something - they work about fifty thousand officials.
Within them, officials are organized into pyramidal hierarchies. The levels are at least fifteen and, starting from the bottom, they are marked by different degrees of remuneration. In common, however, all officials have a lowest common denominator, that is, they earn a lot of money. In fact, in the first grades of access to careers in the European institutions we can be satisfied, so to speak, with a few thousand euros, normally never less than three thousand euros per month, until reaching top positions in which, thousands of euros per month, they earn more or less 16000 € per month (data updated to 2010). And we are not talking about MEPs but officials, employees.
To this enormous sum of money paid out by the States for the benefit of many and highly prepared bureaucrats, there are to be added what in the international arena are called the "privileges and immunities"Which correspond to the exemption from purchase taxes, a substantial discount on fuel, healthcare and free education and so on.
All this, amalgamated by a self-referential system in which it is not clear who is the controlled and who should be the controller. States only have to pay several billion a year, Italy pays 3,5 based on the number of inhabitants.
In the large entrance halls of the Glass Palaces of the Union, large electronic billboards stand out at first sight on which are reported, with meticulous detailed information, the numerous daily meetings, the start times and the classrooms in which they will take place. The topics discussed are extremely varied.
If one were not clear what is happening in the European institutions, entering the golden palaces would certainly understand that a lot of meetings are held there. We talk a lot, but a lot, and opinions are expressed, many opinions.
Then you would notice hundreds of people who with a serene and smiling look, certainly less worried than many unemployed scattered around the old continent, go around busy with folders in hand, crossing long corridors covered with carpets everywhere.
Everything stops at lunchtime, when that run-in, efficient and not perfectible system, made up of men and women who go around busy with the many visitors and government representatives who go around with a tag on their neck, block any activity to fill the numerous restaurants set up in those large buildings. Everyone in line, executives and less executives, find themselves in front of self-service international cuisine where a first course or a single dish, with a side dish and a bottle of water, can even cost seven euros. And if someone thought that it always rains in the wet, the answer would be yes.
But what are thousands of officials who are worried about our well-being doing crowded into those buildings? Many of them are paid to check the viability of some projects. Projects are decided by someone else. And if these projects are not prosecutable, never mind, we will start over from another project. It is a pity, however, that perhaps a lot of financial resources have been spent to complete nothing. In Naples they would say: “Facimm ammuina”, that is, it doesn't matter what - but do something.
This heterogeneous community of high-level employees does not have many points in common with each other, except an often insufficient Englishman with whom one survives in an international environment regardless of the results obtained.
The Italians, then, do not even try to support that healthy sense of belonging to the nation that other categories such as the French and the British (before leaving), were able to put as a basis of action in their varied daily activities. The Italians employed in the European institutions, in fact, are all free hitters. They entered the institutions for personal merits and without the support of the nation and do not feel indebted to anyone except themselves and therefore, Italianness, very few keep it upright, even with a tricolor flag on the desk.
This operating system is so well structured that changing it would seriously harm the health, of course, the health of officials. But maybe it would benefit the Member States' coffers, who pay billions of euros into the Union's accounts every year. One of the first contributors, needless to say, is Italy, given that we think in terms of population. Germany ninety million, Italy and France sixty million. Poland forty inhabitants and so on.
Looking closely at this organization, it is easy to understand that it has turned into something else. The European institutions are no longer the same as the founding fathers had thought. The photograph of these days is nothing but a faded image of what the various Schuman and De Gasperi had proudly printed. Everything is deformed and far from the noble inspiring principles that had been put in black and white on the founding treaty.
The truth would not be wrong if it were said that today the European Union is a terminally ill patient. The treatments to bring her back to life can be worthless. The EU is now useless and anachronistic and Britain has done well to pull itself out of a system that has now come out of the control of the nations themselves.
What was once called the European Community has long embraced the proposals of the economically strongest states, primarily Germany, which after the fall of the Berlin Wall began to make the big voice, imposing rules based on the assumptions of economic efficiency - financial statements of a state.
As if Italy is pushing to make sure that the rules for all Member States take into account the value that a nation can offer in terms of world artistic heritage.
Having accepted those rules, based on a dramatic economic stability pact that many states knew a priori that they could not respect, was like putting a noose around their neck.
But since leaving the Union entails the application of penalties and penalties that are not very sustainable by anyone, not being able to leave the EU, at least, not being able to do it without leaving it with broken bones, all States have accepted the rules that they have been passed for valid but which in reality facilitated only a few.
The dream of opposing a European Union to the Union of American States and the Soviet Union has vanished after the first decades of EU history.
The moral is this. The purpose for which Schuman and the other founders of the European Community had thought of forming the union dissolved along the way. The coup de grace we had with the constitution of the single currency and with the consequent subjection of national resources to community power.
Today the European Union runs on old and written rules for the interest of a few. These days the news that the crazy and austere community setting does not want to stop even in the face of the tragedy that the nations are experiencing with the emergence of the coronavirus.
At a time when national economies are stuck to save millions of citizens from death and when it would be necessary to spray the national economies with immediate liquidity, the famous officials and political representatives of the Union cynically indicate what the usual rules are " capestro "which, if applied, will bring the economies of many States to their knees, like a film already seen. Greece knows something about it.
Tens of thousands of deaths are not enough to justify the loosening of the rules and the use of those funds of which, after all, Italy is the main custodian.
"Alea iacta is”Said the Latins, that is, by now the die is cast. The epidemic will pass and this pro-European government will also pass through Italy, which is always ready to impose on us German rigidity, preventing the real development of a nation that, alone, would rise to the top of the positions among the most industrialized states in the world. But perhaps this is precisely what they want, to prevent us from taking off, thus, with the sling of the spread - which has now become a sword of Damocles that swings fearfully over our nation - national political choices are also judged and guided by Brussels, just to be sure to have someone in the Government in line with the dictates of the Union.
The European Union is dead, we only need to celebrate its funeral.
European citizens are tired of millionaire buildings, cynical and overpaid officials and the absurd rigid rules that subject an entire continent to Germany's super iron chancellor.
Our nation, as always, will get up on its own, without having received economic aid from Europe. This government will be wiped out and the European Union will also be wiped out, with all due respect to that media-institutional system that has fired at all those Italian politicians who over time, from time to time, have had the courage to raise their finger to tell everyone that perhaps, in the European Union, something was not going the right way. It is certain that Italy alone will never be able to compete in global challenges. The solution is to leave the European Union immediately, paying a very high duty (we are talking about tens of billions of euros, various financials) with the prospect of redesigning new alliances, even transversal, with other countries animated by common interests also by virtue of their strategic position we have in the Mediterranean.
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