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Not only does this report constitute unacceptable interference in the constitutional organisation of the Member States, it has no real foundation: its aim, as always, is to destroy the nations by overturning internal political order within the States, in order to build a federal Europe. The argument put forward, that of bringing the Union closer to the citizens, is misleading.
In supplementing the work undertaken at supranational level, consisting of transferring the powers of the Member States to the European Union from the top, Parliament is in fact simply trying to strip the nations of their sovereignty, this time from the bottom.
Those who are naïve enough to respond to the siren calls of so-called local democracy or new governance, which are concepts manufactured by the ruling technostructure, should know that the decentralisation game promoted by and for federalists can only have one winner: at the end of the day, it is Brussels that, by absorbing the new ‘prerogatives’ provisionally granted to local bodies, will gain from a process that it has skilfully controlled.
The naïve should consider this moral from the work of La Fontaine: ‘It matters not by whom you are eaten, man or wolf, one stomach is much the same as another in this regard; a day earlier or later does not make much difference’."@en1
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