{"id":44,"date":"2011-11-24T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-11-24T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T13:33:43","slug":"a-crisis-of-european-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/a-crisis-of-european-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crisis of European Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole of the European project is turning ugly. People don&#8217;t matter. Only the bankers&#8217; accounts. With more and more Europeans being violently pushed under the poverty line (not least by &#8216;socialist&#8217; governments) strikes and demonstrations by desperate people being &#8216;squeezed until the pips squeak&#8217; proliferating all over the Eurozone, while the arrogant and willfully out of touch European &#8216;leaders&#8217; and their side kick unelected and unaccountable Eurocrats tell us, No! You can&#8217;t hold a referendum! (God forbid that the people, the great unwashed, the sans culottes should actually have a say), or in Italy, No! You can&#8217;t hold an election! What a thought! It is at the very least refreshing to hear a Member of the European Parliament say it out loud and to their faces. See link below for Nigel Farage&#8217;s speech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=ZVdVsLiQu4U\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=ZVdVsLiQu4U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be uplifting to hear a similar speech by one of our own Members of The European Parliament?<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank my friend Nico for sending me this video.<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/a-crisis-of-european-democracy\/' data-title='A Crisis of European Democracy' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/a-crisis-of-european-democracy\/' data-title='A Crisis of European Democracy' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole of the European project is turning ugly. People don&#8217;t matter. Only the bankers&#8217; accounts. With more and more Europeans being violently pushed under the poverty line (not least by &#8216;socialist&#8217; governments) strikes and demonstrations by desperate people being &#8216;squeezed until the pips squeak&#8217; proliferating all over the Eurozone, while the arrogant and willfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}