Hopefully, the masses will now understand that we are descending to the Middle Ages, where the population, treated as lawless serfs for a famine, is treated to work to the grave. While lower educated people receive such a low wage, it requires at least two breadwinners per family to earn a reasonable income and to be able to live properly according to time and circumstances.

Politically, from a democratic point of view, the European Union and its member states are put to death, unless the masses realize that large political parties sponsored by Europe with big money are systematically pushing the population back to the Middle Ages. Europe and the European Union must be put out of action by the population, which only seems to stand a chance if the right-wing parties exchange the center-right camp, for a reasonable and realistic but also extremely right-wing and regionally oriented policy, by following local standards to join together, and thus build a policy towards the population, in reasonableness of each participating group and population, with a reasonable division of interests according to participation and commitment.

The wild European and general political exploitation must stop, just like the total unreasonable compensation of politicians, even where they are below par or often fail to deliver.

But the EU is going so far away that even a Macron is starting to worry.

De Tijd July 4, 2019

President Macron wants the Belgian to lead a "conference" that considers how the spectacle around top jobs can be avoided.

For the first time in ten years, former Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (open VLD) is sitting in a regular seat in the European Parliament. Verhofstadt hoped to end his career in the European parliament as president, but things turned out differently. The hemisphere chose an Italian socialist, David Sassoli, as chairman on Wednesday. He may be relieved in 2.5 years from a center-right EPP member.

Guy Verhofstadt will remain the Brexit coordinator of the European Parliament for the time being. But French President Emmanuel Macron has another "top job" in mind for the former prime minister: president of a European "conference" on the future of the European Union.

Spectacle

Macron dropped the name of Verhofstadt and his plan for a conference at his closing press conference after the marathon summit. "The spectacle that we (European leaders) brought was not so good," he admitted. "The working methods and the appointment procedure must have changed in five years."

President Macron believes that decisions at European level are far too far from the citizen. In order to strengthen voters' ties, European transnational lists must be established. Citizens and civil society must become more involved. The functioning of the Union also needs to be improved: it is always too slow to respond to crises.

No convention

It is striking that Macron does not use the word "convention" because that term is charged. Verhofstadt launched the European Convention on the Future of Europe as Prime Minister at Laken Summit in 2001. This resulted in a European constitution, which was rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands. Nevertheless, at least 90 percent of that constitution was incorporated into the EU treaties.

(Kris Van Haver, THE TIME July 4, 2019)

Macron seems to see that the EU is on hot coals, and that the EU backside will be seriously burned, if the EU helm is not changed. His idea may seem good, but it is not. However, it is high time that the population started to push itself away from the EU on the basis of a right-wing policy, and pushed it back to what it should be, namely an instrument to promote common interests, working ideas, with a greater eye for public interest and a strong control of the wages and consumption of this body. We can assume that the Macron Idea involves a maneuver, strategy and attempt to prevent control by the political right and the people.