Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "EU budget stalemate: what happens next?" video.

The French want an increase in the EU budget, but they want their contributions to be offset by a large increase in the CAP. They want the Germans to finance the French imperial ambitions for the EU. Again the spend on the EU military offset by weapons sales from the French military industrial complex. The German tax payer must now fund what they thought they were going to command. The net contributors to the EU budget are being forced to finance their competitors in the member states that are net recipients from the budget. Watching the spectacle of the member states fighting over the EU budget, is like watching a sack of ravenous rats fighting over scraps. It will be interesting to watch what happens when industries start to move from the richer contributor states to the poorer recipient states. This is globalisation in microcosm and still the EU pyramid selling scam continues to expand, but the quality of the states wishing to join seem to have declined, making it even more likely that the richer states are going to be forced to pay more and become less wealthy. Again an example of the decent to the lowest common denominator, a mirror image of the effects of globalisation. At the same time the ECB is continuing QE and setting negative interest rates, in the mistaken belief that this will reinflate the EU economy.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 A federal Europe is doomed to fail, as it will be ripped apart by social inequalities and financial problems. It will be forced to become an ever more authoritarian plutocracy to hold the member states together and keep the super rich happy. It's social policies make it unstable and it will be forced to move to either to the far left or far right position. Emulating China or the US. Ultimately it's fate will be that of the USSR or the same as all empires, destroyed by a combination of internal and external forces. The longer it lasts the more violet its end will be. You may yet be called to defend it in a war with one or more of the other big power blocks, Russia, China or the US. Or maybe it will be destroyed by civil war as a result of the enemy within. It has a mix of cultures that it must suppress to survive. It has already allowed in migrants from violent cultures, many of whom are opposed to democratic government. This mix alone is sufficient to ensure an explosion at some near future date. I think your federal Europe has a good chance of falling apart, even before it is fully formed.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 could it have something t do with Rumania being the third bigger recipient from the EU budget. Maybe you would not be so keen if you were the one paying for it.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 no Romania is just part of a microcosm of globalisation.it's the poor region that will make products to sell to the rich regions. It is being subsidised by the net contributors to the EU budget. Now the EU is short of cash you will get less and may even become a net contributor.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 it is an enemy that has twice now rescued Europe from tyranny, possibly three times if you include the cold war.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 now your are just being ridiculous. Have you forgotten the Berlin air lift?
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@andrawusazimi8428 judging from comments in his previous posts, you guessed correctly.
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