The EU 'Elites', Part II
Technocrats Against Democracy
by Robert Williams • August 19, 2025 at 5:00 am
This is technospeak for censorship, but you already knew that because this is what the "fact-checkers" at Facebook and Twitter did on behalf of the Biden administration and the FBI until Elon Musk bought Twitter and President Donald Trump was re-elected.
Of the EU institutions, the unelected European Commission wields the most power over the EU's 400 million citizens, with its exclusive right to propose laws (the elected MEPs, bizarrely, have no such right), implement policies... The European Commission employs no fewer than 32,000 bureaucrats to help it do all that.
This is a closed-door technocratic and elitist coterie -- the rule of the unelected few over almost an entire continent of 400 million people -- meaning that EU initiatives with huge implications for Europeans get decided without a single ordinary European having a say in the matter.
Arguably one of the most damaging of the European Commission's initiatives that no European citizen has asked for is the European Green Deal, which is leading EU citizens to financial ruin, and transforming the EU into an economic backwater, in the quest to transform the EU into a "net-zero" region by 2050.
Trillions of EU taxpayer euros are compelled to finance this self-destructive climate madness while Europeans continue to deal with skyrocketing energy prices -- themselves the result of the climate madness -- a housing crisis, sky-high prices on consumer goods and unvetted mass migration from third-world countries.
Another catastrophic EU initiative about which no European citizen was consulted, is the EU's new Migration Pact, which will see the further deterioration of national sovereignty and the continued influx of migrants into the European Union. The pact, instead of simply closing the EU's external open borders, requires EU member states to distribute migrants between themselves under penalty of financial sanctions. There has been no public discussion about this.
A third EU regulation with disastrous impacts on EU citizens is the Digital Security Act (DSA), which under the pretext of creating a "safer and more accountable digital space" strangles the pitiful remains of European free speech even further.
The DSA, now the law of the land throughout the member states of the EU, is being weaponized against Elon Musk -- whom European elites despise -- and his X platform. The European Commission is reportedly preparing to impose huge fines on Musk for breaching the DSA by, among other things, refusing to allow external "fact-checkers" on his platform to flag "disinformation". Who, of course, would be checking the EU's "fact-checkers"?
The European Union member states have finally arrived – while never asking the Europeans involved – at their own dystopian future.
The European Commission's unelected president, Ursula von der Leyen, has come up with a nifty new idea in the European Union's quest to snuff out democracy on the continent: The "European Democracy Shield."
First proposed by von der Leyen, ironically, at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit in May 2024, von der Leyen stressed that the initiative was needed to "defend" Europe's "democratic values" against external threats. The initiative is reportedly of the highest priority for von der Leyen. According to the European People's Party Group:
"Its purpose is to strengthen the public's resilience to disinformation and to combat foreign manipulation of information....
