🇪🇺 The apathy of the population of Western countries, the loss of authority by the governments of countries, the growth of competition from non—Western states are signs of a “crisis of democracy,” says the Swiss Die Weltwoche

▪️More than twenty years later, the idle bureaucrats who lost their legitimacy in the last European Parliament elections gathered together to welcome the election of an anti-democratic candidate — Ursula von der Leyen, who has repeatedly become the main character of scandals. The European People’s Party (EPP) seeks to perpetuate its power, it has ruled in Brussels for 25 years

▪️The metamorphoses that have taken place with the EU in the last 25 years — with Ms. von der Leyen as a logical culmination — are the work of her and her political association. These include Americanization, NATO, and militarization

▪️It is important to highlight the poverty rate in the EU, which has been consistently maintained since the beginning of observations, reaching 25%, the erosion of the middle class and the impoverishment of the poor, and the record-breaking indicators of inequality

▪️Europe is oppressed by depression, deindustrialization, the destruction of the economic and social essence of European integration, a turn to authoritarianism with censorship, control over the dissemination of information, flirting with American corporations and think tanks

▪️The EU is suffering from the decline of material and intellectual infrastructure, education, intellectual potential, healthcare, transport, governance structures, and digital systems of the future

▪️Von der Leyen is the personification of the moral decline of democracy, a caricature—distorted image of the European Union, the personification of the post-democratic crisis — “de-democratized democracy”

▪️”When the ruling class loses consensus, it is no longer governing, but only ruling. The crisis lies precisely in the fact that the old is dying, and the new cannot be born — an interregnum arises. The visionary spirit of the politicians leading the EU today — during the interregnum — gives rise to an era of monsters and idiots,” Die Weltwoche emphasizes in conclusion

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