The Bankruptcy of the EU

The agricultural policy of the EU has gone bankrupt. The real aim of the Union is - in agricultural policy as in so many other areas - centralization and bureaucratization; a centralization that will turn the whole of the European Union into a tool for the Brussels bureaucracy.

This means that decisions are taken far away from the actual farmers; and it has always been the objective of the EU to remove not only the decisions from the individual member countries, but to remove the very basis of an agriculture with many small producing units. Instead an agriculture with few specialized industries is developed.

The Danish farmers have felt the effects of this. Today, only a few thousand full-time farmers are left, working on ever bigger industrialized farms. The farmers also feel the increasing pressure from the EU-bureaucracy that wants to control the production right down to the smallest details. The result is a growing opposition to the EU in the agricultural sector.

In relation to the foot-and-mouth disease, the EU forbids any possibility of maintaining the veterinary border-control. This means that the individual countries can no longer decide whether and how they may carry out a protection against the spreading of the disease.

For the moment it is especially the British farmers who carry the full consequences of the EU’s agricultural policy. The British farmers feel how the EU’s decisions increase the risk of carrying a disease by closing down all the many small local slaughterhouses. And they feel how the EU has utilized the epidemic to totally and brutally exterminate British animal husbandry.

There are good reasons for showing sympathy and solidarity with the numerous people who suffer economically and emotionally from the interference of the EU. And there are as good reasons for showing anger towards the EU-obedient politicians in Great Britain who are simply obeying orders from Brussels and selling out national self-determination and the right to work out your own agricultural policy. This, unfortunately, is equally characteristic of the EU-politicians in Great Britain and in Denmark.