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DAMAGE CONTROL: EU Admits Overreach as Populist Victories Loom in 2017
breitbart ^ | NICK HALLETT

Posted on 02/18/2017 6:38:33 AM PST by davikkm

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has admitted the European Union has tried to take too much power from national governments, contributing to the rise in populist movements. In an interview with Time magazine, Mr. Juncker acknowledged some decisions were better taken by national governments, and that people were reacting against this.

When asked why populists were making gains in France, Germany, and the Netherlands, he responded: “I think this is largely due to our faults.

“I think the European Union and the Commission gave the impression that we are in command of everything.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017; eu; populist

1 posted on 02/18/2017 6:38:33 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Genocide Junker’s day in court is approaching...it is just a matter time before a coalition of rulers takes advantage...and goes after the ruling coalition who set off the ethnic cleansing of European genotypes.


2 posted on 02/18/2017 6:39:00 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

70 years ago this idiot would be hanging upside down in the town square.


3 posted on 02/18/2017 6:40:52 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: headstamp 2

It may not be too late


4 posted on 02/18/2017 6:46:09 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: davikkm

Invoking POS 0bama (But I repeat myself) as proof of anything is demented.


5 posted on 02/18/2017 6:49:01 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: headstamp 2

Don’t be shocked when a new form of Nazi party rises up in Germany.These EU idiots will have caused it to happen.


6 posted on 02/18/2017 6:58:06 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: davikkm

Finally he admits it.
Like with all these things he could have headed much of this off by listening harder, earlier.


7 posted on 02/18/2017 7:22:20 AM PST by buwaya
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To: Farmer Dean

That’s what the Leftist-Globalist-Mohammadan parties are now !


8 posted on 02/18/2017 7:27:34 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Nope,those scum are like the communists running in the streets of Germany that gave rise to the original Nazis.The Next group will be ultra right nationalists and they will be brutal.


9 posted on 02/18/2017 7:31:40 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Farmer Dean

Both the Communists and Nazis are products of the left. There’s no such thing as “ultra right Nationalists.” That’s a leftist media pejorative against mainstream citizens that want their borders secure.


10 posted on 02/18/2017 8:20:56 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: davikkm
Wow! Mistakes were made.

The Rooshians did it!

11 posted on 02/18/2017 8:34:12 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: davikkm
I think the European Union and the Commission gave the impression that we are in command of everything.

Gee, ya think? Like banning incandescent light bulbs and vacuum cleaners with more than 1400 Watts? Like that? A$$HAT!

12 posted on 02/18/2017 9:00:54 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: davikkm

Do they have enough tall trees and short ropes in europe? History may be repeating itself there.


13 posted on 02/18/2017 10:12:48 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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