Let's go! Wow, this has become a rather long post, but I think I needed this expression.
To me, this is yet another example of EU's criminal hypocrisy. And I say criminal for a reason. As a discourse for internal consumption, EU (and also each EU state individually) positions itself as a grantor of human rights. However, what the EU as organization (and its member states in their sovereignty parcel) do mostly is to externalize the brute force (i.e. violence including war, violation of human rights, exploitation of human labor, etc) to other countries, especially "ex" colonies, so the EU appears clean. I also quote the "ex" for a reason.
I have the impression, though, that this externalization is being reduced (not by stopping external violence, but by increasing it inside 🤯).
I think all this violence is what it takes to keep current privileges on the world (privileges that include access to raw materials and produced goods for a fraction of its real cost, should they have been produced in an EU country, with all its labor and environmental regulations). These privileges are more and more also to be kept inside the EU, that is, the elites, in order to keep their growing privileges and inequality, need to apply more and more violence also inside the EU, not just outside.
Violence inside the EU has many forms. Some of them are political (ask the Greeks and Alexis Tsipras about that 2015 referendum), or the Spanish constitution reform of 2011 to prioritize debt service over any other public spending (basically establishing a kind of internal colonialism). Another form is the progressive neoliberalization of many spaces, such as privatization of utility companies and public banking, or Bologna plan for university and education in general, seen more and more as a place to conform people to labor market's and economy's needs. The fact that public intervention (especially in the economy) is something more and more banned in the EU is very relevant to me. Ideally, governments should represent thee will of the majority of people (more ideally, a kind of consensus from all the people, minorities included), and therefore, any government action should be supported. Sadly, though, as I see it, governments are another representation of the elite's will, because most of them are run by political parties' cusps, and most of the political parties, at least in Spain where I live, but I guess almost everywhere, are organizations on top of which you usually have power-hungry people, not people with an inclination to public service, which is what I think would be ideal, or even required for a sane democracy.
Another example of internal violence is how migrants are treated (with a constant threat due to administrative faults, deportation even after years of living here, lack of democratic rights or voice, etc). Many of these migrant people also come fleeing from violence created or stimulated by the same EU or its member countries.
Also, despite being formally illegal, at least in Spain, police and secret services target anarchist organizations. You can also see the treatment given to people in organizations such as Extinction Rebellion or Scientist Rebellion. Anything seen as a real threat to current privileges is treated with a limited "state of exception" policy, where supposed rights are trampled. See for example how French police dismantled the ZAD near Nantes, violence in Hambach Forest in Germany, brutality at Geneva protests in G8's summit in 2001, and many many more regular cases, usually ignored by the mass media. The list would be huge, you may get the point already. Also, riot police evicting people from their homes when they can't afford the rent because it has skyrocketed due to the sacredness of free market (that is, more precisely, free reign to capital owners to speculate, and extract more and more from poor people's meagre and diminishing salaries) is pure violence (the fact that it is legal does not diminish at all its violent character, it actually increases it, for me).
All that said, I'm aware that there are parts of the world that are much worse in terms of respect to human life (see for example Colombia and the numerous murders of environmental and indigenous activists). But that does not condone all the violence the EU and its member states exercise daily, both outside its borders and inside, upon its unprivileged inhabitants.
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