Posted on 06/18/2016 6:43:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is increasingly under fire because of his unilateral style of leadership. Officials in Berlin and Brussels are losing their patience and EU legal experts have cast doubt on some of his methods. […]
… According to the European treaties, the body Juncker leads is a normal government agency that must ensure that agreements reached are in fact adhered to. Juncker, though, sees himself as the head of a government — one who has made it his job to break agreements if it appears politically advantageous.
The list of his unilateral forays is a long one. During the Greek debt crisis, he threw his support behind Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras even though the Commission is not one of Greece’s creditors. In the refugee crisis, he wants (to) force EU member states to accept other countries’ offers to provide police officers to help protect their borders and has threatened states with monetary penalties should they not accept refugees — an imposition for any sovereign state. …
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(One of the writers further down in this artucle actually compares Juncker to Reagan, which is fallacious and particularly vile.)
A petty tyrant
One with a bit too much power and zero accountability to the people. If he goes, it will be due to the mafia politics that goes on there.
“Juncker, though, sees himself as the head of a government”
Now how could the President of the European Commission get THAT crazy idea?
Europe is a hotbed of despotism. Fascism, Anarchism, communism, the ultimate refinement of monarchism including the papacy, British mercantilism, etc.
The one thing Europe doesn’t provide is freedom and the people having a voice.
Besides, he is from the powerhouse Luxembourg.
He’s probably one of these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
Gee, maybe Obama does have a brother?
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