Meget spændende artikel om, hvordan EUs reguleringshelvede ødelægger medlemslandende økonomier.
He could be right. If the latest iteration of the EU Common Agricultural Policy is pushed forward, it will tie payments to farmers to environmental targets. Those targets include requiring the farmers to reserve at least 7 percent of their land for ecological purposes. In other words, if the farmers don't decrease their output of food by 7%, they won't be able to sell the food they produce on the other 93% of their land.
Given that they are already having trouble selling what they grow, due to the quotas and the fact that the euro makes their output uncompetitive, there is real concern about the viability of the Portuguese farm sector. Remember, we're talking about a growing environment as temperate and fertile as Southern California.
It was around this point in my wanderings that the proverbial scales dropped from my eyes and I came to something of a revelation.
Europe has been quietly taken over by communists.
And I'm not saying that for dramatic effect, but because the facts are evident. Succinctly put, operating from headquarters in Belgium, upwards of 30,000 bureaucratic functionaries working for the European Commission, and sub-commissions such as the Education Commission and the Competition Commission, are concocting an endless stream of perfect-world regulations whose net intent is to manage the economies of all EU members.
And, for good measure, all functions of civil society.
