The European dream was born out of fear of unchanging of the desperate people escaped from the tragedy of war who wanted to win the right to peace, freedom, food and dignity
The European dream was born out of fear of unchanging of the desperate people escaped from the tragedy of war who wanted to win the right to peace, freedom, food and dignity. They elected their leaders and followed them with confidence. It is true that the generation of leaders that had gotten out of the war put the interests of the people before the partisan interests.
Euro-skepticism, regarding the minimizing of the EU, erupted out of the fear of change of the lazy egoists after decades of peace who want to keep their rights to protection and assistance, subsidies, scholarships, pensions and rents. They do not believe in leaders and do not follow them but they don’t look for them anymore either. They prefer the populist managers that flatter their egos and calm them down by leaving them under the impression that they would be good if they close themselves in national provincialism and stay away from the "others". This is the essence of the Irish denial for the EU Reform Treaty. This is the essence of a problem that is not exclusively Irish.
The Irish “no” is not the result or the expression of democracy, but of the crisis in which it is located. On one hand, we are dealing with mass inability to understand or find solutions to solve complicated problems of ensuring security and social justice in the given conditions of globalization. On the other hand, it is the divorce between the people and the elites. The Irish referendum is not a victory of democracy, but a final blow against the idea of democracy. (Especially to the direct one.) Unwillingly, and without knowing it, the Irish have innocently proclaimed that the "king" of democracy is empty.
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