This social engineering program is indeed HUGE and growing. Just recently the EU budget for ERASMUS doubled to 42 billion euros.
The European Union plans to enable students from neighboring southern countries to take part in the Erasmus exchange program. The integration of students from non-EU countries in Africa and the Middle East is part of the „Pact for the Mediterranean“.
Mediterranean partner countries include Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.
“In the meantime, there’s this huge beast of Erasmus programme, waiting to be taken advantage of.”
I assume you are against. And you likely have majority of the European population on your side. Now it’s interesting to contemplate why median voter theorem does not work in EU.
The median voter theorem applies to particular methods of deciding outcomes. The decision making processes in the EU, its institutions, and member states are sufficiently complex and diverse that I’d be very surprised if anything like it applied.
Yup. Median voter theorem already barely works in a vanilla setup (voters directly electing decisionmakers) because of issue bundling. Add couple of layers of indirection (voters electing local MPs, who elect the local govts, who then choose the Commission) and there’s little, if anything, left.
The EU is becoming more and more a top down imposition (tyranny), that´s what is shown.
As to why it came so far, i can only speculate.
The notion of proper souverignty should be service to the lowest. Politically speaking, politcal leaders then become only souverign, to the degree that they drive the authority from benefitting the people who are most scattered and oppressed within their reign.
The EU strived away from the righteous path, from vouluntary participation and invitation into the will of the few who hold power. Power in itself holds the potential for corruption and also attracts corrupted minds like such who only strive for power.
Maybe that is always the end to where centralized power leads.
This social engineering program is indeed HUGE and growing. Just recently the EU budget for ERASMUS doubled to 42 billion euros.
The European Union plans to enable students from neighboring southern countries to take part in the Erasmus exchange program. The integration of students from non-EU countries in Africa and the Middle East is part of the „Pact for the Mediterranean“.
Mediterranean partner countries include Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.
“In the meantime, there’s this huge beast of Erasmus programme, waiting to be taken advantage of.”
I assume you are against. And you likely have majority of the European population on your side. Now it’s interesting to contemplate why median voter theorem does not work in EU.
The median voter theorem applies to particular methods of deciding outcomes. The decision making processes in the EU, its institutions, and member states are sufficiently complex and diverse that I’d be very surprised if anything like it applied.
Yup. Median voter theorem already barely works in a vanilla setup (voters directly electing decisionmakers) because of issue bundling. Add couple of layers of indirection (voters electing local MPs, who elect the local govts, who then choose the Commission) and there’s little, if anything, left.
The EU is becoming more and more a top down imposition (tyranny), that´s what is shown.
As to why it came so far, i can only speculate.
The notion of proper souverignty should be service to the lowest. Politically speaking, politcal leaders then become only souverign, to the degree that they drive the authority from benefitting the people who are most scattered and oppressed within their reign.
The EU strived away from the righteous path, from vouluntary participation and invitation into the will of the few who hold power. Power in itself holds the potential for corruption and also attracts corrupted minds like such who only strive for power.
Maybe that is always the end to where centralized power leads.