Prison Union: Where the weak rule and destroy Europe

Recently, Hungarian President Viktor Orban defended his vision of a sovereign and democratic Hungary before a hostile European Parliament in Strasbourg. At the same time, I was in Brussels as part of a provincial delegation of FVD for the European Week of Regions and Cities. Both events made clear why strong and sovereign minded people should want nothing to do with the European Union.

Liberal dictatorship versus Christian democracy
Hungary is increasingly emerging as a guardian of a strong and traditional Europe. The reforms implemented by the Orban government in recent years aim to safeguard Hungarian sovereignty and identity. To a large extent, this has certainly already been achieved. Despite many attempts of the liberal opposition to undermine Hungarian identity with the aim of handing Hungary over to the whims of the international liberal order through their ‘open society’, the globalists have failed to further liberalise the country.

Although Orban's government is formally in power, the international community is still trying to force Hungary to open the country up to outside influences. This is mainly done through EU policy and fines, such as the fine for Hungary refusing to receive migrants and thus allegedly violating EU rules.

Liberal values are also abused in other ways to force Hungary to be liberal. Indeed, liberal ‘rights’ are misused in a strong example of Babylonian speech confusion that could come straight out of George Orwell’s ‘1984’. ‘Free media’ stands for ‘liberal media’ and Popper's paradox for tolerance especially shows the intolerance of liberals towards other worldviews. Ideology is imposed under the guise of freedom and democracy and anyone who thinks differently can expect repercussions.

In the Netherlands, the sad reality is that liberals do rule this country. Here, liberal values are seen as constitutional foundations within which democracy must position itself. In Hungary, they have found out much faster than us that these liberal foundations have created the very problems of the present time and are actually undermining the foundation of our countries and peoples. Liberalism is the ideology of directionlessness - anything comes and anything goes, where every form of identity is fluid, where deviations are supported to break down the norm. What is left? Nihilism and depression.

The Hungarian answer? Christian democracy.
Whereas democracy itself in its purest form refers only to the way in which voting is allowed with the condition that the majority wins, there are different ways in which this process can be designed. Liberals, with their conception of liberal democracy, equate democracy with liberal values. According to the theory of liberal democracy, a democracy can be democratic only when liberal values are safeguarded. This is also why traditionalist and nationalist parties are seen as anti-democratic by liberal totalitarians. 

Christian democracy offers an alternative to this view. It is a view where, from its own strength, the state system is based on strong Christian foundations. Social organisations cannot undermine the Christian traditional order.  In direct policy, this means that the traditional family is the main unit of focus. This concept is based on a Christian vision of metaphysics which can provide a sustainable answer to the nihilistic liberal alternative.  It is a vision for the strong - strong family bonds, strong individuals, strong communities with a higher purpose in life, a perspective that is greater than oneself. 

This is a very different perspective from the one which Dutch representatives in the EU have. 

The House of the Dutch Provinces
The governors of the Dutch provinces created the organisation ‘The House of Dutch Provinces’ in 2000. This is a lobbying organisation through which the Provinces of the Netherlands defend their interests in Brussels in order to raise subsidies for local projects. This House of Dutch Provinces played an important role in the Week of Regions and Cities, where the FVD delegation which attended was directly confronted with the weak stance taken by the Dutch bureaucrats. 

According to the website of the European Committee of the Regions, the aim of Regions Week is: 

‘Under the slogan ‘Empowering regions’, delegates from thousands of local and regional governments and authorities, EU institutions, young politicians, academics, NGOs and private sector representatives will gather in Brussels to exchange knowledge and experiences and put forward ideas on practical and place-based aspects of cohesion policy. A great opportunity to learn from each other, discover new issues and network with key players in the field."

This text alone shows the true intention of the week: the EU is organising it to encourage further European integration. Therefore, it is not about the Netherlands being there to defend its own interest, but, from the EU's perspective, it is a formative week to shape regional managers and officials according to the wishes of the EU itself. 

It was mainly the questioning attitude of officials and politicians that was the problem. The FVD delegation spoke with Dutch bureaucrats about how they applied for certain subsidy funds and how they are going to get money from Brussels. Their answer was shocking: most of the bureaucrats did not have a plan to lobby for EU funds. They were passive, weak, afraid for confrontations and had a wait-and-see mentality. It was the job of the EU representatives to explain the process of lobbying to the Dutch bureaucrats and they were so weak that they were completely trampled underfoot. ‘It works the way it works’ was the motto. There was a complete lack of sense of the power they had as representatives of the Netherlands. 

This was the same with the chosen representatives of the provinces that were there. In interviews with local administrators, it became clear that they are afraid of breaking previously made agreements with Brussels. The European Commission stated that the signatures which were set for bad policy documents were, after all, made in the previous coalition and that the current representatives are stuck with them. The representatives accepted this argument as it was a fact. They were apparently not confident enough to formulate a rebuttal to this and defend Dutch sovereignty.

The conversation with several local representatives showed the erroneous view of democracy apparently prevalent in these circles. For instance, it was expressed that earlier signatures had been made by the then ‘democratically legitimised’ government and that overruling such a decision now would be precisely undemocratic - the world upside down. From their psychology, of course, this is an expression of fear - the fear of change and the fear of falling outside the group. They are not real leaders but weak managers. They wait around instead of taking the initiative themselves. No wonder the Netherlands has lost almost all of its sovereignty.

At an official session, it became even clearer what weak people come out from the Netherlands. The session discussed how the Dutch lobbyist in Brussels should deal with the new government. According to the so-called experts invited by the House of Dutch Provinces, the arrival of the new government was a big problem. Changing national policy would jeopardise the Dutch negotiating position with the European Commission.

The national government scrapped the so-called NPLG. This Dutch Rural Area Plan (Nationaal Plan Landelijk Gebied) from the previous government ensured that funds were made available to enable farmers to stop farming in order to meet the environmental targets the Netherlands had signed up to with the EU. The current government still wants to achieve the current environmental goals but it has blocked the funds to realise these targets.

Apparently, Dutch lobbyists in the EU think that a negotiation starts with accepting all the EU's dictates and delivering an implementation plan. When asked why we do not simply announce that we are no longer participating in the whole circus, the response was that this ‘would not be up to the Netherlands’ because the other countries would be in favour and otherwise the overarching goals would not be met. The problem was the new PVV government that would ruin the Dutch negotiation position - whatever that means in this context. All the experts in the panel agreed that there are too many farmers in the Netherlands. Where most of the panel members wanted to expropriate the farmers by force from their land, the opposition on stage would state that the farmers should get financial compensation when expropriated. Both sides in the ‘debate’ were completely controlled by the sustainable development Mafia. 

A local representative of the new supposed ‘right-wing farmers party’, BBB, was asked to sum up the debate and he stated that he was happy that everyone in the panel and audience agreed with each other – to loud booing from the audience.

At another session, the focus was on the rise of the ‘far right’ and what danger this rise of the right posed to the larger project and global goals they are working on.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the political battle is not just a battle of ideological differences. It is a struggle between strong men who want to make better times against weak men who have accepted the demise of our civilisation. Oswald Spengler was absolutely right about the decline of civilisations.

In reality, politics is not a regulated system with rules and procedures. Politics is what you make of it yourself. Politics is an expression of the Will, with a capital W. Taking control and running your own course against all impossibilities. Not the mental prison where the weak conform to the weaker. 

Rules for you but not for us
Brussels is a city where rampant digitalisation and control urge has become so great that it has led to setting up CBDC, where money can be conditionally programmed. This contrasts with the day-to-day reality in Brussels. Almost nowhere the FVD delegation went could be paid by PIN. Everywhere they were asked to pay in cash. The places where it was possible to pay by debit card often refused the Dutch bank card or charged a fee when using the debit card machine. In today's Netherlands, this situation is unthinkable. Here again, the Netherlands is the best boy in the class.

The betrayal of elites
The weakness of the European Union and its member states stems from the betrayal of their own elites. Our managers who come to Brussels are often no longer interested in defending national sovereignty or looking after the interests of their own citizens. They are more concerned with maintaining the status quo and securing their own careers within European power structures. This leads them to take decisions contrary to the will of the people under the guise of democratic legitimacy.

The fear of being left out of the group, combined with a lack of real vision and leadership, makes the European Union increasingly resemble a technocratic dictatorship. Elites who dare not speak out against Brussels contribute to the erosion of national sovereignty and the decline of European nations.

The only way Europe can save itself is to return to the principles of national sovereignty and self-determination. Countries like Hungary show that it is possible to offer an alternative to the liberalism and globalisation promoted by Brussels. Christian democracy and a strong national identity are the basis for a free and sovereign nation, where the will of the people is the most important aspect of policy.

The EU is an expression of the worst aspects of the modern European: it is both literally and figuratively a self-imposed prison, where fear rules, parasites reside and weakness is stimulated.

You only have to look at the headquarters of the European Commission to see what kind of prison we find ourselves in, after all, the outside is a reflection of the inside. However grey and drab it is, they luckily always manage to give it some colour with a rainbow zebra crossing.

The battle for Europe is certainly not lost but it requires courage, vision and determination from leaders who are willing to go against the grain. It is time to leave the European Union and re-commit to a Europe of sovereign nations, where each state has the freedom to determine its own path, without the urge to conform to the demands of a technocratic elite in Brussels.