Nobel and the EU

Jim Rogers comments this year's Nobel Peace Prize:

Nigel Farage comments:

So does Fredrik S. Heffermehl.

And Lew Rockwell too.

Hungary Once More

Following up on a February report, Mr. Alexander Shaw defends, over at Andrew Cusack's blog, what's going on in Hungary.

Hungary Again

Over at the weblog of fellow monarchist Andrew Cusack, Mr. Alexander Shaw and Mr. Cusack report on Hungarian responses to inquiries of the European Commission.

And there's a video:

More on St. Stephen's Land

Mr. Daniel McAdams has more on the situation in the Land of the Crown of St. Stephen at the LRC Blog.

Bottled Water and Dehydration

The European Union is banning the claim that water can prevent dehydration. So The Daily Telegraph reports.

Paul and Roche on the EU Madness

Europe's and Turkey's Future

Over at Taki's Magazine, Mark Hackard gives his thoughts on Europe and Turkey.

Brussels Sensitivity Tyranny

The EU bans “sexist” language. So the Daily Mail reports (via LRC).

Kong Fuzi told us:

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

Iceland Caves In?

Apparently, the “solution” to the financial crisis in Iceland is EU membership, as the BBC reports. Is Frankfurt fiat money better? Where will this world end?

European Integration Must Go!

The German Cabinet Secretary of the Interior, Wolfgang Schaueble, tells us why:

[T]ax havens are not compatible with European integration.

Barroso: Non-Imperial Empire

An important part of the Wilsonian world order is the European Union. Now the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, tells us the EU is a "non-imperial empire". It is not imposed from a center.

I guess that means it's just like modern democracy; "we" always have the right to kick "them" out of office. Well, I guess it's all right then?



BTW, those United States of America were also originally in a voluntary union. I wrote a piece on this a few years back.

H/T: The Brussels Journal.

Don't Mention...

Writes David Warren:

[T]he two things you never mention in the company of European politicians: the War, and Europe’s Christian heritage. Neither ever happened in the official view of the “new Europe,” and mentioning them is in the poorest possible taste.

Well said. There are, however, three things:

• The War, World War II that is.
• Europe's Christian heritage.
• The virtues of the pre-1914 order.

Since it today is the 62nd anniversary of the signing of the U.N. charter, I will also draw attention to another piece of the article:

It is time people realized that “human rights codes” are a weapon employed by the state to suppress disapproved behaviour by the individual. They cannot be wielded by the individual against the state, as independent civil and criminal courts could be. They are star chambers used, and designed to be used, to mount show trials, in which persons who fail to snap to attention when commissar issues the latest political corrections may be publicly demonized.

Link via The Monarchist.

Fukuyama Still Believes

Professor Francis Fukuyama still believes in the end of history. He further explains his position. The end of history is more the European Union than those United States.

Link via the Brussels Journal.

Current Threat to Liberty

The Czech President, Václav Klaus, recently warned that environmentalism is a threat to "freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity." So WorldNetDaily reports.

This statement is welcome. The Czech President would, however, be well advised to drop the term democracy and, thus, achieve compliance with the principle of three terms.

See also President Klaus's statement on "Europeanism" before the Mont Pelerin Society (2005, The Brussels Journal).