How do you feel about the European Union?
Intrusive? Stability? Solidarity? Our Euro-mood meter invites you to choose the word that best describes what the European Union means to you, or you can make up your own. You can vote or send in your own contribution once a day. New words are monitored by our editors before they appear. The results are also ranked by political preference – right, left or centre. We also invite you to comment on the results here (if you need more than one word).
Saturday 30 May 2009, 8:29
EU, one of the good things coming out of WOII.With ECSC as its parents big business had to follow sooner or later. Steel and coal, conrete and airplanes, only to end with ms. Kroes to fine all the moguls who continue to form cartels.
Choosing beteen tiny and small, meaning protectinism, and big and strong, here the EU, the choice is easy: we have to embrace the EU, being nothing less then a lifesaver. If some call our Europe an old man it must be jealousy for having such a steady politcal framework (for it will survive, we can leave that to the big boys).
Europe with approx. half a billion peole feels a hell of lot better then Holland, with a mere 16 million people. Only little minds choose to stay small, for they lack scope and vision.
Saturday 30 May 2009, 12:24
united diversity
Saturday 6 June 2009, 19:54
The EU would be fine
- if it was a democracy;
- if Parliament was sovereign;
- if Parliament was to hold the executive to account;
- if the executive was accountable, financially and politically;
- if it was all about freedom, justice and free trade.
But from where we stand in Britain and Ireland, it looks too much like a napoleonic or even hitlerian attempt to exert control by an unaccountable and dishonest elite. It hasn’t turned violent …. yet. But the menace is continually there.
Monday 8 June 2009, 16:55
I work in an import-export fruit and vegetable firm. I buy and sell from Spain to Holland, France, Italy, Slovakia and also the UK.
Whoever has or is in business in the EU, knows that if the EU did not already exist we would have to invent it.
The Euro (apart from the inflation is created at the beginning) is the best invention for business and for the future of all member nations which have been/will be smart enough (not too difficult really) to adopt it.
From a citizen’s point of view, the possibility of travelling around with so much less hastle and paperwork is in my opinion magnificent.
JUST IMAGINE THE UNITED STATES WITH 50 FRONTEERS AND 50 DIFFERENT CURRENCIES (believe it or not but there are plenty of differences between the different states of the Union). Cheers everyone
Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:13
Serbs are still angry about something the Croats did 500+ years ago. Greeks p/o @ the turks. Flemish people have problems with Wallons because of their inability to speak 2 out of 3 official Belgian languages (+ their poverty which flemisch feel is costing them via the federal system in Belgium).
In the Netherlands it has become (expensive) a sport trying to gain as many funds as possible from the EU to level the donations to that institution. Thousands of public servants fill their day with frivolous cr@p like foresaid.
Oh yeah & we’re supposed to keep smiling.
Thursday 2 July 2009, 18:59
iam against the european union, but i favour a strong and democratic united nations organisation.