Impoverished Bulgarian pensioners protesting. I picked this snippet up from the Daily Telegraph a couple of days ago and have only just got around to mentioning it.
The whole idea and concept of the European Union is one of the noble idea of the richer member nations helping out their poorer European neighbours. However, of course, it don’t work like that and when adding in the real underlying reason for this virtuous edifice, which is the creation of one massive new nation called Europe, what is left can best be described as an unmitigated mess.
It’s sea of corruption and vested interests, it has created a Europe of ‘me first’ nations and has never taken into account human nature and the fact that opportunists and scallywags will get in there and take liberties with the EU’s grand ideals.
The poorest nation in Europe is Bulgaria, and if the EU was working to its principles it should be receiving EU funds to help improve the lives of its poorest people, of which there are a lot in Bulgaria, including their pensioners as seen protesting above. But of course, as mentioned, it don’t work like that. The problem is EU money in Bulgaria, which was never noted for its honest ways, has been vanishing into black holes, and no doubt a number of corrupt pockets.
Because of these “widespread spending irregularities”, the EU has decided to strip Bulgaria of £187 million in EU funding and unless the Bulgarian government does not sort out these problems of corruption and organised crime, the EU has threatened to remove £289 million of aid next year.
Considering the UK, along with Germany, is one of the EU’s largest net contributors, British taxpayers who are currently struggling to make ends meet, or get life saving drugs on the NHS, and whose pensioners are living in an increased state of poverty, are paying for this Mafia corruption and widespread losses in the EU and for our money to just vanish.
Ok, so the EU thinks it has Bulgaria sorted, now what about all those other EU-wide scams and widespread losses? All this amounts to yet another, of the many, many reasons why we would be much, much better off out of the EU.
The whole idea and concept of the European Union is one of the noble idea of the richer member nations helping out their poorer European neighbours. However, of course, it don’t work like that and when adding in the real underlying reason for this virtuous edifice, which is the creation of one massive new nation called Europe, what is left can best be described as an unmitigated mess.
It’s sea of corruption and vested interests, it has created a Europe of ‘me first’ nations and has never taken into account human nature and the fact that opportunists and scallywags will get in there and take liberties with the EU’s grand ideals.
The poorest nation in Europe is Bulgaria, and if the EU was working to its principles it should be receiving EU funds to help improve the lives of its poorest people, of which there are a lot in Bulgaria, including their pensioners as seen protesting above. But of course, as mentioned, it don’t work like that. The problem is EU money in Bulgaria, which was never noted for its honest ways, has been vanishing into black holes, and no doubt a number of corrupt pockets.
Because of these “widespread spending irregularities”, the EU has decided to strip Bulgaria of £187 million in EU funding and unless the Bulgarian government does not sort out these problems of corruption and organised crime, the EU has threatened to remove £289 million of aid next year.
Considering the UK, along with Germany, is one of the EU’s largest net contributors, British taxpayers who are currently struggling to make ends meet, or get life saving drugs on the NHS, and whose pensioners are living in an increased state of poverty, are paying for this Mafia corruption and widespread losses in the EU and for our money to just vanish.
Ok, so the EU thinks it has Bulgaria sorted, now what about all those other EU-wide scams and widespread losses? All this amounts to yet another, of the many, many reasons why we would be much, much better off out of the EU.
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