EUROPEAN INTEGRATION REQUIRES THAT OUR FREEDOMS BE RESTRICTED
It's not difficult to understand: to achieve a federal and fully integrated Europe, the EU's managing technocracy (same UK and US) must aling the way control and restrict our freedoms.
Here's how it's done - the inner workings of control.
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But before we can talk about the erosion of our freedoms, we must understand what those freedoms are, where they come from and why they are our natural rights.
This is not the place for all the foundation philosophy stuff, but for those interested here are a few short videos explaining things in a way that is easy to follow:
And there are plenty more from this excellent School Of Life YouTube channel. Anyway...
1. OVERVIEW
Europe has entered a phase where integration requires control, and control requires data.
This piece examines how the EU / UK ( for they are working in harmony withe US) has expanded into the private sphere through digital identity & identity, surveillance, finance and control, speech regulation and mobility restrictions.
The pattern is cumulative and structural, ie no need for a conspiracy theory, just ratchet up the control - beware: powers ("the rules") grow during crises and rarely retreat afterwards. Pt 6 looks at this control exerted by our technocracy.
And finally a quick look at the shambles of this rambling EU organisation of control, with all its capital and operating costs paid for by us.
2. DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE AND IDENTITY
The EU Digital Identity Wallet creates a single authentication system for citizens across the Union.
Prüm II expands cross border sharing of fingerprints, facial recognition, DNA and vehicle records.
AI assisted biometric matching is being built into policing systems.
These developments link identity, travel, services and security.
They erode anonymity and create a permanent gateway into our personal lives.
3. FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL
The EU push toward central bank digital currency is well advanced.
Anti money laundering rules now require extensive monitoring of our private bank transfers.
Cash limits are widespread across member states.
Financial data moves freely between taxation and enforcement authorities.
The result is a system in which we individuals become financially transparent to the state.
4. SPEECH, EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION
The Digital Services Act mandates algorithmic monitoring of content.
Trusted Flaggers have quasi official authority to remove posts.
Hate speech categories expand and blend into platform governance.
Emergency regulations allow rapid censorship.
Public discourse is now shaped by regulatory incentives rather than spontaneous public debate.
5. MOBILITY, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CONTROL
The Covid certification regime created a template for conditional access to daily life.
Passenger Name Record systems store flight data for years.
Schengen Information System alerts are being broadened.
Travel and movement can now be restricted using administrative tools rather than judicial ones.
Freedom of movement has been reframed as a conditional right.
6. STRUCTURAL DRIVERS
Several forces explain this shift:
- Technocratic governance places authority in the unelected Commission (the government) and agencies rather than elected bodies.
- Integration logic requires shared identity, data and policing systems.
- Crisis politics normalise emergency tools.
- Digital modernisation embeds surveillance architecture by design into all the software we use daily.
- The EU aligns closely with US security structures as does the UK.
Here is the orgchart - the organisations that manages these processes that control us.
Look at the sigla on four letters! (See NOTE below)
7. CONTRADICTION WITH FOUNDING VALUES
The EU claims Peace, Prosperity and Solidarity.
The lived experience is otherwise: Security, Compliance and Centralisation is our daily experience.
The EU now operates as a continental administrative state with deep visibility into citizens’ lives, allowing more and more interference and control in our private liberties.
Formal rights remain but practical freedoms are shrinking.
8. RISKS FOR THE FUTURE
"Function creep" is inevitable once systems are born into existence.
Democratic oversight weakens when rules are embedded in technical systems.
Surveillance becomes normalised.
So-called "emergency governance" becomes permanent.
Member states may push back, risking fragmentation and so controls and sanctions are tightened.
9. CONCLUSION
The EU’s interference in individual liberties is not driven by malice. It is driven by institutional logic and the belief that integration demands control.
Citizens are increasingly "managed" rather than represented.
The central question is whether any institution can reverse these trends or whether this is the future architecture of Europe and the fate of its citizens.
SIGLA ON FOUR LETTERS - NOTE
The EU’s bureaucracy is far crazier than most people realise - it spreads across more than 150 to 170 organisational units, including the European Commission’s 33 Directorates-General, dozens of executive agencies, task forces and offices, 39 specialised EU agencies, parliamentary committees, joint undertakings and satellite bodies.
This sprawling architecture reflects the EU’s evolution from a simple economic community into a full political-administrative system with its own quasi-state machinery. This is a scale that more and more shapes its policymaking, its intrusions into national sovereignty, and its growing distance from the democratic control of ordinary Europeans.
Remember that all these people buildings and programs of work, such as the ones fleshed out in processes and procedures used to control us, all this is paid for by us, the taxpayers.
And understand why the people operating these processes would not want to give up their cushy jobs and lifestyles with trips abroad to international conferences and children paid for international school and generous retirement packages on top of the generous salaries etc. And the technocrats with the power and governance and Influence they exercise...!!!
