The EU as socialist mummy?

Harsh, but writing in Rzeczpospolita (& via Presseurop), Jarosław Mulewicz explains:

One of the EU’s official bodies is the European Economic and Social Committee that [is] supposed to review the EU’s decisions on behalf of civil society.

There being no electorates on hand to do the job, of course.

How does the rightful idea of civil oversight look in reality?
The Committee members are named by non-governmental organisations, employees and employers and appointed by the Council following nominations by member state governments. Most of the members are in fact members of organisations representing the above. So you can hardly find a real business-person in the employer group, a real worker in the employee group or a real social activist in the civil society group. Many members serve numerous terms, in some cases extending to several decades. The oldest of them is eighty nine.
A recent vote in the employer group took place by acclamation. When I asked whether a representative of the employer group was now or had ever been a businessman, I heard that not, but that he had a feel for the spirit of enterprise.
Similarly, a representative of the employee group said he had never been a worker. When I asked whether they could switch places, I heard it wouldn’t be so difficult.

I’ll give the EU this: it has never lost its comic touch.

Nevertheless, these “representatives” of a (European) civil society that does not exist are paid rather well out of taxes that are all too real.

The translation is not the most elegant, but as a quick portrait of the nonsense into which Brussels has degenerated Mulewicz’s article does very well.

Read the whole thing.