JJJJ Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 The European Parliament elections are coming up, and im struggling who to vote , and more importantly, whether to vote or not in the first place. Ideally, I would like to vote for a person staunchly opposed to the EU itself, wanting to get Finland out of the EU, but there are two problems. First of all, the European Parliament isnt the place where this thing is decided, and secondly, all of the candidates opposed to the EU and wanting Finland to get out of it, are nationalists, or some kind of fringe socialist nuts. I just filled a questionnaire online that all the candidates have also filled, and the top 8 matches were all some kind of nationalists or even borderline national socialists. None of the "established" parties oppose the EU, and there are no, and i mean no, conservative opposition to the EU here, and the so called "capitalists" in this country are the most vocal supporters of the EU and the future federalisation of Europe, so a vote for them is like a vote for Stalin. So, if i vote for a nationalist/nazi, who does not have any say in domestic finnish politics, but who wants to get Finland out of the EU as i do, is that good or bad? Or should i just refrain from voting altogether? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOdden Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 I think the issue for you is most likely going to be, who will be least likely to contribute to the expansion of EU federal power? I would not suggest voting for a Nazi, instead, vote for the best of a bad lot. Basically, consider the most likely outcomes given what you know (ignore the fringe 1% candidates, assuming there are none who are actually good), and decide which are the worst -- don't vote for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sac Posted May 28, 2009 Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 I don't know whether you have the opportunity to vote for the pan-EU party Libertas or not. I'm not even sure whether to recommend them. It seems they want to institute more controls over how the European Parliament works, hold fewer EU meetings, etc. They're all very limited goals, but anything that can make government smaller or less effective seems good to me. Unfortunately, they apparently have nothing to say on any topic outside of the organisation of the EU, which is somewhat disturbing. The party seems very one-issue, sort of like the Libertarians. http://www.libertas.eu/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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