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Description: As she fights for her political life Soon-to-be-ex-Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel will go down swinging against her stiffest political opponents in the European Union, the Poles.
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# Merkel's Last Stand - Article 7 For Poland

by Tyler Durden
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As she fights for her political life Soon-to-be-ex-Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel will go down swinging against her stiffest political opponents in the European Union, the Poles.

Merkel and French President Emmanual Macron publicly agreed to back Article 7 proceedings against Poland for refusing to comply with EU immigration quotas and changes to its judicial system.

Immigration quotas, I might add, that are becoming harder to defend as the war in Syria is mostly over and the flow of refugees from there has slowed to a trickle. But, those brought in and stranded in camps in Italy and Greece apparently need to go somewhere else.

But, no one wants them. And the rest of the EU is trying to bully Poland and the rest of the Visigrad countries – Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia – into taking on their ‘fair share.’ The problem with this is that Merkel made this decision unilaterally and foisted it on the rest of the EU.

And she is determined not to lose this fight to Poland, not because this is any kind of humanitarian issue at this point.

No, this is about the primacy of EU diktats being enforced at the expense of logic and political cohesion. And, as I’ve been warning about all year, Merkel will put the EU before any practical consideration and bring Article 7 proceedings against Poland.

Because she has to.

Immigration and the destruction of individual European cultures is the guiding principle behind the EU’s biggest benefactors. This policy is part of the long-term strategic goals of the EU. It has created an army which will be used to quell secessionist movements in the name of ‘continental security.’

Because despite the fevered dreams of a few hundred Latvians, the Russians are not invading Europe anytime soon.

And I have to wonder who will staff this Grand Army of the Oligarchy? After impoverishing an entire generation of people thanks to a decade-long banking system bailout, you shouldn’t be expecting the crème de la crème of the vanishing European middle class.

You can expect a number of these newly-integrated immigrants that Merkel invited at everyone else’s expense will be in their ranks. And only the most politically-acceptable members of the current armies of each country will be invited to positions of authority in this new EU army. Their loyalty will be to the EU first and their homes second.

The very definition of a Vichy gendarme for the 21st century.

Poland and the rest of the Visigrad Four – Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia – are headed for a collision course with the rest of Western Europe over this issue and many others.

And invoking Article 7 will eventually allow the European Parliament to rescind all economic aid to Poland and its voting rights within the body. While at that same time not allowing Poland free access to international trade because it will not be an independent nation at that point.

Any move to extricate itself from the EU politically or practically will be met with the most strident opposition. Look no further than Brexit talks and the brutal put-down of Catalonia’s independence movement to see Poland’s future.

The first step is a political reprimand. But, the problem for Merkel and the EU in general is that Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party is more popular than ever thanks to its opposition to her nonsense.

The same thing is happening across all of Eastern Europe. The Czechs just elected their version of Donald Trump, Andrej Babis. The Austrians put together a coalition government this week comprised of the two most anti-immigration parties in the country.

And their new Foreign Minister wasn’t on the job more than a couple of days before publicly declaring Austria would be ending its economic sanctions against Russia which have been in place since 2014 over Russia’s reunification with Crimea.

I wonder how well that’s going to go over the next time the council of EU Foreign Ministers gets together. EU sanctions require unanimity or the measure is rescinded. Opposition to these sanctions has been growing but there has been a lack of leadership in standing up to Germany on this.

That will likely change in 2018 with Germany’s leadership in flux.

Merkel will simply continue doing what she’s told to do as the European Project proceeds steadfastly towards its original goal. It doesn’t matter that the EU will be in tatters once it gets there. Stay the course is all she and the rest of the EU elites have left.

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August Dec 19, 2017 2:49 AM

The decisions of the German Chancellor are binding on all EU member states.

It's there in the fine print, really.

Déjà view August Dec 19, 2017 2:56 AM

German submarines vs. Polish Cavalry...

A Sentinel Déjà view Dec 19, 2017 3:00 AM

Attack by division. They’re not going after all 4 in hopes that they won’t leave as a block.

A Sentinel A Sentinel Dec 19, 2017 3:02 AM

And by the way - didn’t I just read that Angela (miss Germany) was suing some dork hedge fund guy about ostriches?

07564111 A Sentinel Dec 19, 2017 3:10 AM

I smell the stench of war and death.

wildbad 07564111 Dec 19, 2017 3:18 AM

she may "go down swinging" but she will go down!

and I don't mean in the going down on George Soros sense...enuf of that already.

so who is responsible for trying treasonous scum like merkel who slearly serve masters and ideologies other than the german citizenry?

the BS court in the Hague? --- no chance ..owned by a political UN.

the contitutional court in Karlsruhe? --- nope in the pocket of the ECB

Haus-Targaryen wildbad Dec 19, 2017 3:37 AM

I hope the Poles tell Angie to sodomize herself.

shamus001 Haus-Targaryen Dec 19, 2017 8:44 AM

Ahh the birth pains if the 4th reich rear ts head!

researchfix wildbad Dec 19, 2017 3:45 AM

She´s finished.

Funny, I didn´t read or hear German MSM use the words "new election" in the last 6 weeks. Word seems to be banned. Like the truth.

DownWithYogaPants researchfix Dec 19, 2017 7:32 AM

Give up the money powers of your government and this is what happens. What fuckery. Humans have been hacked by virtue of the general lack of mathematical intuition. It is disconcerting to we engineers.

I would like to know who really orders Merkel around. She's obviously enough a puppet and I know it is Private Central Banking but it's time for us to know their names and faces. They obviously court anonymity. I suspect our true rulers would be disconcerted to hear and see their name all over the internet with descriptions of their positions.

wildbad DownWithYogaPants Dec 19, 2017 8:02 AM

great comments all!

I wonder what the Bundesbank does all day long in their grand Tower in Frankfurt now that Mario has lunched on their balls..

overbet Déjà view Dec 19, 2017 3:03 AM

These invasions couldn't have been pulled off better if Muslims held every high ranking position in every EU country

07564111 overbet Dec 19, 2017 3:11 AM

What Zion wants Zion gets. Merkel and friends saw to that.

Ecclesia Militans 07564111 Dec 19, 2017 6:54 AM

A committed individual with a high powered rifle and a scope can fix this. You know, before the Krauts come swaggering through the border crossings again waving their bullshit and lack of fuel around....

MK13 Déjà view Dec 19, 2017 7:56 AM

Submarines lose, no land base to refuel, you lose.

But this is not about Poland anymore, it's now Central Europe versus Western Europe. Problem for Germany - Austria's government is being common sense about the influx of refugees - and its media broadcasts in German. Don't bet against the Hun, once they get going they get the job done.

Ink Pusher Déjà view Dec 19, 2017 8:22 AM

The German submarines are all out of commission as of today. No joke.

SoDamnMad Déjà view Dec 19, 2017 8:25 AM

https://www.rt.com/news/413483-germany-submarines-out-of-service/

https://www.rt.com/news/410068-leopard-tanks-not-operational/

https://www.rt.com/news/385336-german-army-mali-problems/

Not that I believe Russia Today but I'll lay some bitcoins on Poalnd not being a pushover by any extent.

https://www.rt.com/news/380327-german-army-private-consultants/

https://www.rt.com/news/364734-german-air-force-problems/

https://www.rt.com/news/361955-germany-bundeswehr-tornado-jets/

https://www.rt.com/news/399101-german-helicopter-crash-blades/

HenryJ Déjà view Dec 19, 2017 9:52 AM

I`d Bet on the Winged Hussars everyday, some of the Bravest Warriors to ever enter a Field of Battle

Peterk_kk August Dec 19, 2017 8:16 AM

Is Merkel Chancellor? In transition. I don't think she has any power until sworn in.

BlindMonkey Dec 19, 2017 2:49 AM

Can this even happen if the EU vote isn't unanimously agreed to? Why would the other Eastern Europe powers not form their own logical sub-EU bloc to protect themselves from Germany?

Next, can the Poles swallow their pride and re-align themselves Eastward with their hated (for now) foe and turn away from the West and avoid the obvious self-destruction eminating from Western Europe?

Poland needs to make a choice between Russia and China vs the globalists that are bent on self-destruction. Choose wisely.

researchfix BlindMonkey Dec 19, 2017 3:48 AM

The Poles have the talent to infuriate every neighbour.

Rubicon researchfix Dec 19, 2017 5:56 AM

Fuck off. And I mean that most sincerely.

researchfix Rubicon Dec 19, 2017 6:13 AM

I´ll stay.

-5 says I got to the point.

Ecclesia Militans researchfix Dec 19, 2017 6:51 AM

Insulting a Bob Ross avatar? Good luck with whatever happens.

researchfix Ecclesia Militans Dec 19, 2017 9:54 AM

Mea culpa. Thought it was Reinhold Messner or Paul Breitner.

geno-econ researchfix Dec 19, 2017 9:24 AM

Or every neighbour is infuriated with Poland. Poor but Proud Poland---always caught in the middle between East and West.

Now they are expected to take in Middle East migrants while UK rejects Polish workers.

MK13 BlindMonkey Dec 19, 2017 8:01 AM

The problem is that for the last 50 years of 20th century, Russian threat to Poland was very real. It will take a long time to change both Polish and Russian attitudes, but Merkel is doing a great job of educating Polish voting public. This is all positive for Central Europe, long term.

Ink Pusher BlindMonkey Dec 19, 2017 8:20 AM

The EU is a corpocracy, not a democracy.

Prophetic ::: The Visegrad will grow in membership over this next year or two from four to more.

The EU is crumbling and by the time Brexit is complete,there will be an ongoing exodus of other disgruntled nations.

otschelnik Dec 19, 2017 2:54 AM

Oh Angie, don't you weep, all your kisses still taste sweet

I hate the sadness in your eyes

But Angie, Angie, ain't it time we say goodbye?

Fireman Dec 19, 2017 3:03 AM

The Vichy Gendarme or EUSSR battalions means a declaration of war by the current NAZIS in power in Berlin against the captive nation states of Urupp. (provison for such is embedded in the infamous Lisbon Treaty even providing for foreign, as in German troops, to be moved inside the EUSSR to supress nationalist revolt against the Pedophile Politburo in Brussels). EuroPeons have said NO to the EUSSR and despite what STASI agent "Erika" imagines when the €urodollah gets flushed the NAZI dream will be flushed with it.

With the Brits as good as gone the rest will eventually get it and reject the disgusting and evil corpofascist United Snakes of Urupp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-6pHdUpfk

"Count" Richard Coudenhove Kalergi’s Plan outlined by Gerd Honsik
“Kalergi proclaims the abolition of the right of self-determination, ... the
elimination of nations by means of ethnic separatist movements or mass
allogeneic (genetically dissimilar) immigration to create a multiethnic flock
without quality, easily controllable by the ruling class. Kalergi characterized
the multiethnic flock as cruel and unfaithful but maintained the elite must
deliberately create them in order to achieve their own superiority: ‘Then the
elite will first eliminate democracy – the rule of the people. Next, the elite
will eliminate the people via miscegenation, thereby replacing the ruling white
race with an easily controllable mestizo race. By abolishing the principle of
equality of all before the law, avoiding and punishing any criticism of
minorities, and protecting minorities with special laws, the masses will be
suppressed.’'

"Count" Richard Coudenhove von Kalergi's genocidal screed "Practical Idealism" 1923 in pdf format (link below) is the original Austrian NAZI and his satanic tome makes Onkel Adolf's "Mein Kampf" look like a bedtime story. This mutt laid the foundations for the abomination known as the EUSSR with its capital in the sewer Brussels, seat of the totalitarian Pedophile Politburo that runs the EUSSR for the banksters and satanists.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vcpu7j7hakukmde/Coudenhove-Kalergi-Practic...

DelusionsCrowded Fireman Dec 19, 2017 8:08 AM

Just because some crank thought up an idea and published it doesn't mean that he and his (?) are behind all that goes on in the world .

Fireman DelusionsCrowded Dec 19, 2017 8:59 AM

You obviously haven't looked up Coudenhove's role in the setting up of the infamous EUSSR.

http://www.ukipdaily.com/conspiracy-theory-vs-conspiracy-fact/

http://www.karlspreis.de/en/

Conscious Reviver Fireman Dec 19, 2017 9:05 AM

Reminds me of Barbara Spectre Lerner.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ

SparticusUK Dec 19, 2017 3:01 AM

' But, those brought in and stranded in camps in Italy and Greece apparently need to go somewhere else.'

How about back home?

overbet SparticusUK Dec 19, 2017 3:04 AM

Or Soros manor

Temple of Truth overbet Dec 19, 2017 6:12 AM

Israel also didn't get it's "fair share" of invaders.

Victor999 Dec 19, 2017 3:03 AM

"

And their new Foreign Minister wasn’t on the job more than a couple of days before publicly declaring Austria would be ending its economic sanctions against Russia which have been in place since 2014 over Russia’s reunification with Crimea.

I wonder how well that’s going to go over the next time the council of EU Foreign Ministers gets together. EU sanctions require unanimity or the measure is rescinded. Opposition to these sanctions has been growing but there has been a lack of leadership in standing up to Germany on this."

As with all statements like this (rebellion in the ranks, and all that nonsense) the EU has just voted UNANIMOUSLY to extend Russian sanctions for another six months. Where was Austria? The Czech Repulbic? Hungary?

Germany/France, esp Germany, rule - Europeans need to wake up to that reality.

BlindMonkey Victor999 Dec 19, 2017 3:11 AM

TheI chance to end them is when they come up for a vote again where they need to be unanimously re-instated. This has happened several times but this summer 2018 might be the last.

Albertarocks Dec 19, 2017 3:15 AM

"Immigration quotas, I might add, that are becoming harder to defend as the war in Syria is mostly over and the flow of refugees from there has slowed to a trickle. But, those brought in and stranded in camps in Italy and Greece apparently need to go somewhere else."

How about back to Syria. Has anybody in Brussels given that any thought?

any_mouse Albertarocks Dec 19, 2017 4:09 AM

Der Krieg ist vorbei!

Return to your homes.

P-51 Stiletto Dec 19, 2017 3:19 AM

Is there a free Polish army I can go join? They'll have to let me bring my own guns and ammo... 'Cause, did you hear the one about the Polish army?

rtb61 Dec 19, 2017 3:21 AM

All Poland needs to do is have a nice big old public meeting with Russia and watch Merkel shut up in double quick time. The EU simply could not take the chance. What Poland could do is file Article 7 against Germany for allowing those migrants in without the approval of the EU as body. Immigration laws cut both ways.

Now those would be interesting votes. Doesn't matter who has the money, what matters in the EU is the number of countries voting in a particular way.

rtb61 Dec 19, 2017 3:21 AM

All Poland needs to do is have a nice big old public meeting with Russia and watch Merkel shut up in double quick time. The EU simply could not take the chance. What Poland could do is file Article 7 against Germany for allowing those migrants in without the approval of the EU as body. Immigration laws cut both ways.

Now those would be interesting votes. Doesn't matter who has the money, what matters in the EU is the number of countries voting in a particular way.

Joe A rtb61 Dec 19, 2017 4:57 AM

Perhaps they could file an art. against Germany because Merkel acted unilaterally and without consulting her European partners on a matter that affects everybody in Europe.

ogretown Dec 19, 2017 3:23 AM

Who really knows what President Trump will do in this case. It would figure that he would back the tottering EU, but then again he might not. He might be wise enough to see that if Poland is backed into a corner there is one guy...one really cool guy who can (easily) swoop in and back Poland - Vlad Putin. And then again there is Austria with its sparkling new anti-immigrant government who might just kick in with the Poles as well. One can only hope.

quadraspleen Dec 19, 2017 3:23 AM

Paging Ghordius...EU defence needed now!

Ghordius quadraspleen Dec 19, 2017 4:04 AM

good morning everybody

defense? nah. only this: those Art. 7 proceedings are a separate matter from the refugee quota spat

simplified:

- the refugee spat is about a 2015 EU Council decision to "spread the pain", taken for the first time without all sovereign members agreeing, with a Qualified Voting Majority.

note that Poland had a different Gov, in 2015, which voted "Yes"

note that many members, including Poland, are NOT complying. meh

- the Art. 7 proceedings are about Polish Judges. the current Polish Gov wants to throw out many of the old ones, and give the Justice Minister broad powers to appoint new ones

This is highly controversial in Poland. even the Polish President is not complaining about this "EU meddling", as well as a sizable portion of "Constitutionalists", in Poland

let's put it in an extreme example: would Americans greet a "Judges Tsar" with the power to change the US Supreme Court (and lower courts) members at whim with joy? hardly, imo

of course, the two separate matters are easily conflated in one, and then conflated more with the "German Chancellor Supremo Of The EU Myth" which, interestingly, is a bit of an "English Thing" and a bit of a "Zionist Thing", too

the good thing: most Poles can hold all those matters separate, as well as Brexit. the Englishman-on-the-street way less so, which is very sad indeed

kellys_eye Ghordius Dec 19, 2017 4:40 AM

"note that Poland had a different Gov, in 2015, which voted "Yes"

but, according to EU diktat, you can only change your vote to the benefit of the EU, never its detriment.

"would Americans greet a "Judges Tsar" with the power to change the US Supreme Court (and lower courts) members at whim with joy?"

Joy? I don't recognise the concept of 'joy' however this happens at every party political change of Pesidency. Why should Poland be any different?

Seriously, are you defending this EU policy of enforced immigration Ghordius???

And you disrespect the UK publics stance on this????

Ghordius kellys_eye Dec 19, 2017 5:42 AM

"but, according to EU diktat, you can only change your vote to the benefit of the EU, never its detriment."

pure unalterated rubbish. the EU Council just met for it's December 2017 session. and discussed the matter again

the vote balance is unchanged. there is still a QMajority for the scheme, but there is also willingness to re-discuss

don't talk as if we were talking about unwary, uninformed citizens taken from the street that meet there. it's ministers of sovereign countries that meet there

Old Europe Ghordius Dec 19, 2017 7:25 AM

Genocide - and Merkel´s open borders mean genocide - is a hatecrime against humanity. You cannot decide about genocide by a majority vote. It´s still a crime and will be treated accordingly very soon.

Merkel and her EU masters have zero legitimation to turn all of Europe into a concentration camp for white Europeans.

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