Barroso wants to spread Libyan asylum seekers in Italy around the EU

The BBC reports the following comment by Emperor Barroso on the Italian government's concerns that they are about to be flooded by refugees from their former colony, Libya:

I think if this problem develops that way, we have to be ready to do it in a European way, because these people are not just trying to come to Italy. We have to prepare a response that is compatible with our values.

As is always the case with Emperor Barroso, you have to look at what he's not saying to get the true meaning.  What he means when he says "we have to be ready to do it in a European way, because these people are not just trying to come to Italy" is that Libyans seeking refuge in Italy will be spread around the EU, not dealt with in the first friendly country they land in as international law requires.

This is yet another example of the EU acting like a country.  What is happening in Libya is appalling but we mustn't allow it to be used as an excuse for EU empire building.  International law requires asylum seekers to be taken in by the first friendly country they land in.  Libyans have the whole Mediterranean coast - European and African - to choose from, they don't need to end up here.

The Emperor Strikes Back

Emperor Barroso has been re-appointed as President of the EU Commission in a sham election in which he was the only candidate.

Despite being the only candidate, they still held a vote to give his appointment a thin veneer of democracy. But he didn't get it all his own way though, 382 MEPs voted for him but 219 voted against.

Once again Emperor Barroso confirmed the federalist agenda of the EU:

Anyone who wants to come on board for this exciting journey, that is the construction of a united Europe, it is with them that I would like to build the necessary consensus to strengthen the European project

The Tories, naturally, supported Barroso and his eurofederalist agenda.

Iceland votes to join EU

Members of the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, have narrowly voted to surrender one of the oldest parliaments on the planet to the European Empire in 2013.

Iceland has had its own parliament since 930 with only a 45 year break.

The Icelandic economy relied almost exclusively on fishing, banking and tourism until recently when most of their banks collapsed (helped along by the British government abusing anti-terrorism laws to force the UK arm of an Icelandic bank into administration) and the Europe-wide recession meant nobody could afford to go to Iceland on holiday. Iceland is now bankrupt with no hope of paying its way out of insolvency in our lifetime and sees the European Empire - and more specifically, our money - as the only way to balance the books.

Emperor Barroso is happy with the vote, saying that Iceland is a "European country with long and deep democratic roots". He likes a challenge does Emperor Barroso, unravelling 1,079 of parliamentary democracy in 4 years will keep him busy.

He went on to say that it was evidence of the "vitality of the European project and indicative of the hope that Europe represents". Hope that the net contributors to the imperial treasury - the UK, the Netherlands and Germany - will bail them out and they will need bailing out for a long time because not only has their banking sector been devastated but they will find their fishing industry eradicated by EU fishing quotas and their tourism industry wiped out by the EU's green taxes targeted at preventing people from flying.

Iceland has two options for the future - they can either stay as an independent, sovereign nation and emerge from recession in a few years as an independent, sovereign nation or they can submit themselves to EU imperialism and have their economy pegged at third world levels for the next few decades.

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