Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛Feb 14, 2025

We must assume that Europe is becoming the world's last democratic major hub. Imperfect, perhaps, but democratic.

As such, Europe is the prime target of the new American administration.

Everything this administration will do will be aimed at harming us.

Washington's primary objective is now to hamper Europe's ability to exert a counter-power, even if it means joining forces with the worst tyrants.

We still have allies in the United States, but not within the administration.

Show threadwindy
@N_Henin
The EU is not democratic at all. And even less if it gives itself the powers to cancel elections.
Feb 14, 2025 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadVeza85UEFeb 14, 2025
@windy @N_Henin Which elections were cancelled by the EU?
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Veza85UE @N_Henin That's not actually what I wrote. But event that can be argued concerning Roumania for instance.
Show threadVeza85UEFeb 15, 2025
@windy @N_Henin Which EU institution was involved in cancelling Romanian elections?
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025

@Veza85UE @N_Henin As I said, I don't know if EU was involved in Romanian election cancellation, however it could be argued. See this video of Thierry Breton, ex-commssioner, pro-European, at the end of which he says the EU intervened in Romania.

https://reseauinternational.net/thierry-breton-revendique-lannulation-des-elections-presidentielles-roumaines-par-bruxelles/

For sure the EU Commission and the Eurogroup intervened against the results of the Greek referendum in 2015 ... ask Yanis Varoufakis for details.

Show threadVeza85UEFeb 15, 2025
@windy @N_Henin It *could* be argued if you're concern trolling or otherwise arguing in bad faith that a former EU official referring to fellow Europeans as "we" as I do on this website every day means an institution he was famously no longer employed in told the Romanian Constitutional Court to annul the elections. Otherwise, no, it cannot be argued because it's an intox heavily pushed by far-right disinfo networks. Who are, I suppose, too lazy to read up on the CCR and RO domestic politics.
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025

@Veza85UE
OK. I hear your message.

We'll perhaps see one day if you are right about RO domestic politics not being pressured by EU.

You are wrong on two things however: I am not trolling and am not far-right.

I wouldn't be surprized if we were on the same side.
@N_Henin

Show threadVeza85UEFeb 15, 2025
@windy @N_Henin I never meant to imply you were. So many years of horseshoe assadism, horseshoe "ukronazis", horseshoe Wagner is NOT a terrorist organisation and even if it were WhatAboutAmericaBad?? etc etc have taught me not to assume. There is unfortunately a lot of permeability for Kremlin memes to seep into non-far-right milieu.
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Veza85UE
I rather invest in realism than in ideoligy.
@N_Henin
Show threadDec [{()}]Feb 15, 2025
@windy @Veza85UE @N_Henin
Can you actually be specific about whatever it is that you are trying to say?
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@dec23k @Veza85UE @N_Henin I am just disagreeing to a post that said: "Europe is becoming the world's last democratic major hub"
Show threadDec [{()}]Feb 15, 2025
@windy @Veza85UE @N_Henin
You are doing a lot of hand-waving.
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@dec23k
If I'm doing anything wrong, offending, against any rules please feel free to tell me, I might be unaware. Thanks.
@Veza85UE @N_Henin
Show threadDec [{()}]Feb 15, 2025
@windy
"Curious! I am very intelligent!"
Show threadBlahsterFeb 15, 2025
@windy @N_Henin not democratic at all? Lol. Sounds like you should head back to Shitter. This is not like your echo chamber here.
Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Blahster @N_Henin Yes it does "sound" like that. But is isn''t that. If you don't agree with me, I'm sure you can do better than that in telling me why.
Show threadBlahsterFeb 15, 2025

@windy @N_Henin at first you could start with a real argument and sources, before people might start to give you real answers.

Until then, don't expect anything else.

Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Blahster @N_Henin OK. The institutions aren't the institutions of a democracy and don't function as such. Other example: the unelected president of the Commission, after being thrown out of Germany's Gov. for governing privately and undemocratically through private SMS, negociated 35 billion euros with Pfizer also through private sms on her private phone, deleted all sms and refuses now to show the contracts negociated and evicts a lobbyist who sues her. In EU, that's business as usual.
Show threadBlahsterFeb 15, 2025

@windy @N_Henin and such an example is proof, that the whole government isn't democratic? Lol, you're funny. Please tell me you're a comedian.

While there are deficits in almost every democracy, every institution is controlled. The fact alone that you have this information is proof that this statement is correct.

Now tell me again that there are good and bad people everywhere and one doesn't define a whole group.

Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Blahster @N_Henin You talk about a EU "government"? What do you mean by that?
Show threadBlahsterFeb 15, 2025

@windy @N_Henin Have you ever heard of the EU-parliament?
I talked about your example of Germany, btw.

But don't change the subject. Back to the original question, you still didn't answer.

Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Blahster
The EU-Parliament is not a real democratic parliament. For instance, it does not have a checks&balances function, it does not have legislative powers in a democratic sense.
The EU is a treaty, not a democracy, same as the UN.
@N_Henin
Show threadBlahsterFeb 15, 2025

@windy @N_Henin and that is your take on "the EU is not democratic"?

In what world are you living? Every parliament in the EU is democratically elected and checked by another institution. The EU parliament itself is also democratically elected and defines regulations beyond the borders of the independent countries and also controlled by other institutions.

Again, tell me how this is not democratic.

Show threadwindyFeb 15, 2025
@Blahster @N_Henin Describe the functions of the pariament in your country and compare them with the EU parliament. You'll find the answer. You are asking of me pages and pages of argumentation that I'm not willing to spend time writing out here in 500char bits. You have my opinion I have yours, we are that much richer now. Thanks for this conversation.
Show threadBlahsterFeb 15, 2025
@windy @N_Henin none of that has to do with your starting point. You wrote that the EU isn't democratic and none of what you said after that had anything to do with that, and additionally, you didn't bring one argument for this claim.
Show threadwindyFeb 16, 2025
@Blahster
So you say.
@N_Henin