When the
European Parliament voted recently to sanction Hungary for neglecting
norms on democracy, civil rights and corruption, we wrote:
This is
the Union that exhibited some "humanitarian sensitivity" by
packing thousands of refugees in Greek islands under inhuman
conditions and paid Turkey to keep them in its soil. And now, these
hypocrites want to punish Hungary for neglecting norms on democracy,
civil rights and corruption!
We were
right.
According
to a recent article
by the NY Times:
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There
is growing acrimony — and now an investigation — over why the
camp [Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos] is so bad when so much
money has been provided by the European Union to help improve the
Greek asylum system since migration levels started to rise in
2014.
[...]
Aid
groups have been warning of a need for expanded facilities for
several years, however. For some, the failure to improve the
camp and hasten the asylum process suggests neglect on the part of
the Greek government and the European Union departments that fund
it.
This
perception was reinforced at a private meeting of Greek and
European Union officials and aid workers on Sept. 4. According to
two people present, a British official representing the European
Commission, the bloc’s civil service, suggested keeping living
standards low at Moria in order to deter future migration to
Greece.
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Meanwhile,
the 'democratic' EU is playing its dirty games, using the markets and
pushing
Italy again to obey to its sado-monetarist
policies: The EU’s disciplinary strategy for Italian rebels is
to rely on markets to drive up bond yields and deliver a cautionary
shock, hoping that fear will shift political opinion within Italy. It
is a perilous game of chicken. The enforcement instrument is to
generate stress in the banking system and it is working. Indeed:
Italy's populist government bowed to pressure from the European
Union over its spending plans with an offer on Wednesday to taper
budget deficit targets beyond 2020, as it looked to reassure nervous
markets.
Do you
see now the enormous hypocrisy of the EU? Do you see its real nature?
And how
about NY Times? Will they ever dare to do some self-criticism for the
fact that they supported every major war, at least the last two
decades? Wars responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe with
thousands of dead and many more refugees. We have serious doubts.
Especially when we see that they insist to host ‘articles’ like
To
Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran, by the most
bloodthirsty neocons like John Bolton.
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