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Greece Loses Last Trace Of Sovereignty After EU Takes Control Of Greek Borders
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December, 2015
Ever
since this summer's dramatic "referendum" farce, and the
subsequent hijacking of the Greek banking system by the ECB's ELA,
Greece has officially been a nation without state sovereignty. Europe
reminded Greece of just this a few days ago when days after its waved
the carrot before Turkey promising billions in aid, and an EU
acceptance fast track, it threatened
Greece with expulsion from
the Schengen customs union (a union which as a
subsequent leak revealed
will likely be "temporarily" shuttered for as long as two
years unless the refugee crisis is brought under control).
Perhaps
to confirm that few things will stand in its mission-creep to
subjugate the sovereignty of European member states, starting with
the poorest and most insolvent, namely Greece, we find out that the
EU and its border agency, is not only preparing to take over border
control of countries that have been found to be "ill-equipped"
to deal with the refugee problem, but has already launched this plan
into action in Greece.
Because
after being threatened with expulsion from the Schengen zone, Greece
(which does not actually share a contiguous, physical border with any
Schengen nation) caved in and accepted an offer from the European
Union to
bolster its borders with foreign guards as
well as other aid, including tents and first aid kits. This decision
follows reports that Greece was unwilling to accept foreign border
guards on its territory, but these were later denied by the
government.
Frontex
Greece asked #Frontex yesterday to provide rapid intervention teams to the Aegean islands. http://bit.ly/FX_rbt
The deployment of additional officers will begin next week.
As Keep
Talking Greece writes,
"the masks have fallen. Hand in hand, the European Union and the
Frontex want to cancel national sovereignty and take over border
controls in the pretext of “safeguarding the Schengen borders”.
With controversial claims, they use the case of Greece to create an
example that could soon happen “in the border area near you.” And
the plan is all German."
Paranoia?
Or just another confirmation that the Eurozone is using every
incremental, and produced, crisis to cement its power over discrete
European state sovereignty and wipe out the cultural and religious
borders the prevent the amalgamation of Europe into a Brussels,
Berlin and Frankfurt-controlled superstate?
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EU
considers measures to intervene if states’ borders are not guarded
The
European Union is considering a measure that would give a new EU
border force powers to intervene and guard a member state’s
external frontier to protect the Schengen open-borders zone, EU
officials and diplomats said yesterday in Brussels.
Such
a move would be controversial. It
might be blocked by states wary of surrendering sovereign control of
their territory.
But the discussion reflects fears that Greece’s failure to manage a
flood of migrants from Turkey has brought Schengen’s open borders
to the brink of collapse.
Germany’s
Thomas de Maiziere, in Brussels for a meeting of EU interior
ministers, said he expected proposal from the EU executive due on
December 15 to include giving responsibility for controlling a
frontier with a non-Schengen country to Frontex, the EU’s border
agency, if a member state failed to do so.
“The Commission should put forward a proposal … which has the goal of, when a national state is not effectively fulfilling its duty of defending the external border, then that can be taken over by Frontex,” de Maiziere told reporters.
He
noted a Franco-German push for Frontex, whose role is largely to
coordinate national border agencies, to
be complemented by a permanent European Border and Coast Guard – a
measure the European Commission has confirmed it will propose.
Greece
has come under heavy pressure from states concerned about Schengen
this week to
accept EU offers of help on its borders.
Diplomats
have warned that Athens might find itself effectively excluded from
the Schengen zone if it failed to work with other Europeans to
control migration.
Earlier
this week, Greece finally agreed to accept help from Frontex,
averting a showdown at the ministerial meeting in Brussels.
EU
diplomats said the proposals to bolster defence of the external
Schengen frontiers would look at whether the EU must rely on an
invitation from the state concerned.
“One
option could be not to seek the member state’s approval for
deploying Frontex but activating it by a majority vote among all 28
members,” an EU official said.
Under
the Schengen Borders Code, the Commission can now recommend a state
accept help from other EU members to control its frontiers. But it
cannot force it to accept help – something that may, in any case,
not be practicable.
The
code also gives states the right to impose controls on internal
Schengen borders if external borders are neglected.
As
Greece has no land border with the rest of the Schengen zone, that
could mean obliging ferries and flights coming from Greece to undergo
passport checks.
Asked
whether an EU force should require an invitation or could be imposed
by the bloc, Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said: “Border
control is the competence for the member states, and it’s hard to
say that there is a need to impose that on member states forcefully.
“On
the other hand,” he said, referring to this week’s pressure on
Greece, “we must safeguard the borders of Schengen, and what we
have seen is that if a country is not able to protect its own border,
it can leave Schengen or accept Frontex. It’s
not mandatory, but in practice it’s quite mandatory.”
A
dramatic increase in EU powers over national territory would be
deeply controversial in much of Europe.
On
Thursday, Danes, who are part of the Schengen zone, heeded
Eurosceptic calls and voted against giving their government power to
deepen its cooperation with the EU policy agency.
The
European Union faces another test over the next two years as Britain,
its second biggest economy, prepares to hold a referendum on whether
to quit – although it is not a member of the 26-nation Schengen
zone. (full article Irish
Independent)
Independent)
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Our
Greek friends at KTG are hardly enthused about ceding control of
their borders to Europe:
Dramatically increase EU powers over national territories? Be my guest. Brussels and Berlin should not be surprised to see the increase of Eurosceptics spreading like mushrooms. Brussels and Berlin may save the Schengen zone and the Euro zone, but in the end they will stand there with their pants down.
Maybe,
but that would require Europe's "sovereign" states to take
a stand against the oppressor. So far, they have all failed and
refused to do that as any attempts to exit the Euro and Eurozone,
would mean immediate loss of all Euro-denominated savings and a
collapse of the financial sector as Greece found out the hard way.
For
the time being however, we bring to mind the May 30, 2008
presentation from then-AIG's Bernard Connolly who laid out precisely
what is happening now in Europe some seven years ago.
Here
is his answer to the question What Europe Wants:
To use global issues as excuses to extend its power:
environmental issues: increase control over member countries; advance idea of global governance
terrorism: use excuse for greater control over police and judicial issues; increase extent of surveillance
global financial crisis: kill two birds (free market; Anglo-Saxon economies) with one stone (Europe-wide regulator; attempts at global financial governance)
EMU: create a crisis to force introduction of “European economic government”
The
full presentation, uncannily prescient then, can be read below.
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