Okay, we know that the US can’t be trusted because it’s political compass wil lalways be changing. So what now? We need to organize, but how? Volt Europa is pretty weak and several people I have met have expressed dislike for them, the EU is gonna be reactive instead of proactive towards threats as always, Elon is trying to buy out more parties in EU…

How to proceed? Anything to do that doesn’t seem hopeless, like voting for paneuropean parties, or leaving US based platforms for EU based, less developed platforms (like Peertube instead of Youtube, or Matrix instead of Whatsapp?

I wish EU was stronger and both the EU and its citizens (and netizens) les reliant on external services (like youtube, reddit, whatsapp, discord, etc.), and I want to do something about it, but I feel completely lost and hopeless.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
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    22 days ago

    @poVoq @Elrecoal19_0 that problem of populists is sadly more up to the member states. Seems that while pro-European sentiment does exist across all member states, it is not consistent. Hence why the populists keep getting in power in the first place.

    And while most of the Europe is paying closer attention to the likes of Fico and Orban, it seems like it is overlooking the corruption and the captivity of the system by political forces that are also populist, but like to call themselves pro-European. Case in point: my country, Romania.

    Here the so-called pro-European government (it doesn’t even contain all the pro-EU forces in the parliament, but I’ll get to that in a moment) is failing to implement vital reforms that have been asked for so long and even in the last minute, it is playing business as usual, like nothing seems to be happening. Well, something is happening, assholes: you’re burning down the very democratic system because of it. We literally got our elections canceled and while most of the people are basing this on Georgescu, not a single reason was officially provided for this.

    Even the European Commission is canceling bilions upon bilions of Euros in post-covid resilience funds because they fail to address reforms of the public system, to make it less corrupt. And the said government is going like “well, yea, shit happens, we’ll just handle it”.

    And from what I understood, the situation is somewhat similar in the neighboring Bulgaria: highly corrupt populist but pro-European political forces and politicians are holding power for a long time, hindering reforms, but the Brussels is not giving a damn because of their pro-European positions.

    Do they not sense the danger in all of this? Do they not think that by not doing enough about these things, the EU will have a bad reputation among these countries citizens? I get that the membership question lies within the member states and it’s good to be like that. But I think the high-ranking officials in Brussels should be aware of this situation and send a message about it, rather than be complacent.