Brave New Eurabia
sucking out its own life’s blood
GERMANY is plotting to wipe Britain off the map in their revived bid to create an EU superstate.
They want the 25 member states to scrap their national boundaries so England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland cease to exist.They would be split up and merged with other countries to form new “trans-national” EU regions.
...German minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said: “There is the great hope underlying the goal of a United Europe that we can overcome old borders."
Well, they tried the direct approach—didn’t work. Now, this. JugEars can just go tend his orgahhnic Islamic garden in peace submission.
DougM
Oh, and btw; it’s the same thing that Chimpy McBusHitler has in store for US, yanno… Camel’s nose and all that.
This would be a great story if it were true. However, it’s yet another euro-myth thought up by someone in the UK who clearly has it in for the EU. Despite it appearing in The Sun, The Telegraph and The Mail as hard fact (even accompanied by editorials denouncing this evil German Plot and headlines such as The Wolf at the Door, Britain to be wiped off the map etc.) it has no basis in reality.
The origin seems to be a press release from the Conservative Party which mentions a Directive “establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Community” which it claims “will forcibly harmonise all maps and geographical information”. It then jumps to “Not only that, but the EU, with John Prescott’s help, is trying to establish regions that cross national boundaries, in order to work towards “a United Europe”.
What’s the connection between this spatial information Directive and John Prescott or a plan to scrap national borders? I don’t know, I didn’t write this stuff.
What is this Directive about? Scrapping national borders? Redrawing maps? Wiping out Britain? Alas, no. It’s about the less exciting subject of harmonising databases so that information on the effect of human activity on the environment can be shared.
How does this morph into ‘EU Plots to scrap nation States’? Again, your guess is as good as mine.
You’re welcome to read the Directive if you can stay awake long enough. In fact you can follow the entire history of this Directive from 2004 up to date, because, far from being some secret EU conspiracy, it has all been published on the internet. In fact, there is an entire website devoted to it and it has been the subject of a public consultation on the internet, a public hearing, has had a first reading in the European Parliament, been back to the Commission, back to the EP etc. There are newsletters, working groups and many other secret goings-on:
http://inspire.jrc.itWhere the German conspirators come into any of this I don’t know.
Posted by Joe on 09/06/06 at 07:34 AMThat’s good information, Joe. Thanks.
Oh, btw; are you a regular reader? Amazing, you found my tiny little blog all the way from Brussels. Glad to have you.
So, are you saying that there is no one with the goal of turning the EU into a single entity and doing away with the national boundaries?
Posted by Claire on 09/07/06 at 08:09 PM
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