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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
This question coming from someone who has just (in a different thread) called the European Commission "socialist gnomes," wo "are running out of things to screw others with"?
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Well if you believe that the EU government is centrist or to the right then I am afraid we will just have to disagree. However, I do think that you will find that the balance of informed political opinion is on my side.
If you are open to convincing then I suggest that you look, just as only one example, at the list of the various member states governing parties represented in the Council of the European Union. You will find that they are not as shy of describing themselves as being socialist as you are in describing them.
So yes, the EU is socialist leaning.
And if you are of the belief that the EU does not have a disproportionate number of member states whose economies are screwed up then again I am afraid we will have to disagree. But I suspect even a cursory knowledge of the woes of many of those states and their suffering populations will prove me correct. I suspect that many of those suffering would be less shy of regarding themselves as having been screwed than you seem to be in regarding their plight as being in that light.