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EU is supra-national organization. I do not consider it more influential then any particular EU member nation state. Non papers are created in national capitals and formal decisions in Strasbourg and Brussels.
I see conflicting views about EU across OCT; that it's either omni-powerfull - EUSSR or subjugated to US.
From political history a conclusion can be derived about similar forms of societal control exerted by different political extremists.
We are members of a society. I sincerely believe that civil rights and liberties must not be downgraded non-ethically, illegally and perfidiously thru AML controls and other fear inducing naratives. Having said that I also believe that functional and effective governments must exist.
Proper corporate structuring, tax optimizations, access to financial institutions and doing international business should not be by default suspicious. But, let's be honest - majority of people - here at OCT as well - want zero tax liability and are angry when taxmen come for their share.
It's up to people not to accept those extreme governmental measures. I do not believe that elections and social participation in general aren't important and that there is some omni-potent force that controls and manages everything and everybody.
Times are changing ofcourse
Germany will become the sick man of Europe- France will become the dominant country - which means the EU falls in line or it breaks apart.
Breaking apart is the most probable outcome.
France (Friendly Allie but own interests), UK (US Vassal - shackled), Sweden (Naval) will be the ones that survive - whether they thrive or not comes down to whether they can rid themselves of surveillance/socialism/ etc
Just my view.
Switzerland the moment it decided to introduce sanctions against Russia tied itself firmly to Germany’s downfall also IMO and the US Fed basically bailed them out alongside internal bail in debasement which the Swiss voted against in 2018/19.
Monaco was all about extracting the wealthiest Europeans - but eventually it will be pulled into France as the Wealth of Europe passes not onwards but predominantly to the states.
For those that think Switzerland will not change or already hasn't, I put it from this perspective - I am or rather in the so called 1%, I wouldn’t put anything there (additional) and none of my circle would either and all my Swiss friends are pulling their wealth out of it.
Switzerland is firmly not needed by France and in the world we move to its luxury items sold to the masses won’t have demand because their client base are dying off creating a influx on the secondary markets - same with gold / silver jewelry as I mentioned on here months back - the moment gold shot up everyone and their grandma was trading in heirlooms for paper currency.
The East hoards gold, uses silver the West wears Prada, and live in disney land.
Case and Point, Switzerland was built on the idea of Privacy.
Yet its embracing surveillance :
Swiss leaders plan to enforce global crypto reporting framework
The protections that Protonmail had being Swiss based is no longer a protection.
CARF Countries FYI - See Belize another previous privacy focused state (in context).: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America; the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey, and Isle of Man; and the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territories of the Cayman Islands and Gibraltar.
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