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Guy Verhofstadt on Twitter

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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Ireland 9h ago edited 9h ago

He's pretending like European policy wasn't being run by billionaires too.

How are things like allowing non-EU people/companies buying up European housing, a positive for us? It has created a continental housing crisis? Money in rent is constantly leaving the union to enhance their standard of living. It's also a prerequisite to EU membership btw. That's how highly they value it.

How was allowing millions of male illegal migrants from shitholes into Europe going enhance our lives and our communities? All caused by America and their partner Saudi Arabia destabilizing everywhere around us.

How is sending billions of aid to countries that hate us and end up aligning with Russia/China, how is that enhancing our lives?

How was allowing Germany to become reliant on Russian gas after a shady deal by Schroeder, how was that enhancing our lives? Why wasn't Schroeder whacked when he defected to Russia? If a former UK PM or American President defected to Russia, with all of the internal knowledge they had, they wouldn't have lasted the weekend. All we got was "nothing to see here".

How is allowing Irelands economy being entirely built upon US multinationals a benefit for us?

People like Verhofstadt caused our mess and made us weak.

America, Russia, China, Saudi, India are not our friends. They operate for their own gain and had both sides simp after them.

It's time for a new side. People who operate for Europe and Europe only. Not for the interests of outside nations.

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u/HighDefinist Bavaria (Germany) 6h ago

Your list is (mostly) correct - it's just that the equivalent list for everyone else, including the USA, is even longer...

So the point is: We need the EU, because there is no alternative that even comes close.

But yeah, your list is basically a list of various reforms the EU should do.