Dear readers, I would like to bring to your attention two lists containing the names of heads of European states and government, heads of European Union institutions who are leading or led European destiny in the last 25 years.
The first list:
Martin Schulz – the President of the European Parliament.
Donald Tusk – the President of the European Council.
Jean-Claude Juncker – the President of the European Commission.
Angela Dorothea Merkel – the Chancellor of Germany since 2005.
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande – the President of France since 2012.
Nicolas Sarkozy – the President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012.
David William Donald Cameron – the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2010.
Matteo Renzi – the Prime Minister of Italy since 2014.
Silvio Berlusconi – the Prime Minister of Italy from 2008 to 2011.
Herman Van Rompuy – the President of the European Council, from 2009 to 2014.
Jose Manuel Barroso – the President of the European Commission, from 2004 to 2014
Second list:
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman – French statesman, twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister and recognized as one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO.
Alcide Amedeo Francesco de Gasperi – Italian statesman and politician, the Prime Minister of Italy from 1945 to 1953, one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet – French political economist and diplomat, one of the founding fathers of the European Union, in fact recognized in unanimity as the chief architect of European unity and the President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1952 to 1955.
Paul – Henri Spaak – politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Belgium (1938–1939, 1946 and 1947–1949), the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (1952–1954), the first President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the second Secretary General of NATO (1957–1961).
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer – German statesman, the first post-war Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963, a great proponent of the European Coal and Steel Community, which was launched with the Schuman Declaration on 9 May 1950, and also the later treaty for the European Economic Community in March 1957.
Adenauer’s opinions on Europe were based on the idea that European unity was essential for lasting peace and stability.
Please, read again the abovementioned lists which have in common an impressive list of names.
There are lists of previous and current names of heads of the European Union institutions, previous and current names of heads of states and government of the European Union Member States.
However, there is a big difference between these two lists: the first one is just a list with names and the second is a list with personalities of the European Union concept.
Only the names mentioned in the second list will endure forever in the consciousness of the people of the united Europe.
The European citizen has to know that Europe’ biggest issue is that it has no true and reliable leaders, both at the European Union and country level.
Germany’s power is polarizing Europe and all these so-called EU heads have been hidding and ruling Europe in the shadow of Chancellor of Germany for years.
At the moment, the European Union is passing through the most important and the biggest crisis since World War II: economic crisis, Greek crisis, Putin’s rise, migration crisis, phenomenon such as Grexit, Brexit and the phenomenon of insecurity and instability at the level of the European citizen.
Dear heads of European Union institutions and Members States, you are not in those positions for your own or your groups’ interests, you are not here to become rich; because you are more than very well paid.
Weak up and start working for the interest of the European Union citizen!
As usually, I would like to finish my article recalling about the fall of Constantinople.
The great Emperor Napoleon I during the Hundred Days in his speech to the Houses in June, 1815, said, “Help me save our country . . . . Let us not follow the example of the Byzantine Empire [n’imitons pas l’ example du Bas-Empire], which, being pressed from all sides by the barbarians, became the laughing – stock of posterity because it was preoccupied with petty quarrels while the battering-ram was breaking through the city gates.”