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Simeon Mitropolitski is a Canadian analyst, of Bulgarian origin, and a former syndicated columnist with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with hot political and economic topics, both national and international.
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals and students that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in this country in 1989, and in 1996-1997 participated in international observation teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
In 2002 Simeon and his family moved from Bulgaria to Canada where they live now in Montreal, province of Quebec. Simeon is a Master of Political Science from McGill University and a B.A. of Political Science and History.
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EU: De-democratization underway
Let's not be so naïve, democracy in the world isn't what was expected to be during the century of Enlightenment. It isn't the people the rules; instead, political elites rule in the name of the people, and are regularly replaced via popular consultations called elections. The statistical probability that any average citizen will serve as elected official isn't the same; some families occupy elected offices much more frequently than others; some are almost always excluded from decision-making. But the bottom line is that in case they wish so, most citizens can decide not only who will rule in the next 4-5-6 years, but also, in time of constitutional changes, can influence on the new rules of game. The EU is a weird project from the very beginning. Nowhere else in the world than in Europe the problem of peaceful coexistence has been so acute for centuries. In a sense, it was the war that made possible the existence of modern nation-states. But it was the modern war that put the continent on the verge of human extinction not once but twice in the course of the last hundred years. So, the limitation of the national sovereignty in Europe in the name of the physical survival was a project that found supporters in all walks of life after the World War II. With the time passing, however, this project did derail. The EU now isn't about making peace among nations; it's about building a new empire that will make the peace the only option on every level. It may sound a bit of exaggeration to call the new project 'empire', but in fact that's what it is. An ideologically 'free' bureaucracy, free in a sense of political responsibility and particular vision for the world other than its own survival, leading the way for half a billion humans, sufficiently uniform in their needs, desires, and behavior in order to make unnecessary the politics as an art of compromise between conflicting interests. Complete elimination of the inherent individual rights in the name of supra-individual 'common good' best identified and pursued by this supranational bureaucracy. Building an iron cage of limited opportunities where people will pursue only those paths deemed rational by the central authority. A world where political dissidence will disappear, only to be replaced by acts of individual madness of those who will be clever enough to fill obediently the roles that are offered to them to play. This will be a world where independent analyses (like this one) will have no place, because the regime won't need anybody else to interpret its decisions. This may recreate the politics and put an end to the utopia. This is the world that the bureaucracy in Brussels wants to create, a world made on its own image of a rational, comprehensive, and consensual agency, a world without conflicts, without selfish interests, and without individual distortions on the road towards the 'common good'. It's a true successor of another world that crumbled some two decades ago. Most European national governments are already out of struggle; they prefer to join the highest authority instead of being treated like collective mad personalities. The only small things that still stand on the road of this utopia are some citizens (by far not all) that collectively refuse to abdicate their freedom to choose. That's why the plan 'B' for reforming the EU institutions won't require popular consultations in key states. The governments that abdicated their constitutional responsibilities of protecting the rights of their citizens will deny these citizens even the opportunity to defend themselves, thus saving the face of these still nominally elected governments. A project that began as a pursued of peace will end up in mild tyranny. Not a big surprise for a continent where the first continental empire was first created as a tool for reaching peace within Roman society. In conclusion, it's necessary to repeat our warning; no matter how small is the number of those who still listen to it. If the current reforms succeed (and without referendum checks this 'if' becomes an affirmative 'when'), in this generation lifetime Europe will be the first successful experiment of eliminating democratically elected political systems on a large scale in world history without a single shot, without a coup, without a war, and without even discrediting the democratic ideals. Elected national governments in Europe won't disappear overnight, in fact, as they become increasingly irrelevant (as the British monarchy or the upper house of the British parliament), they may even be spared, just for the sake of appearances. The real and unlimited masters in Europe will be the Brussels' apparatchiks, people that will set the agenda in the best interest of most citizens and will execute it. Many Europeans that for a very long time lived under different forms of dictatorships, won't even notice the difference.
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