Ricarda Schmitz- Lets Get EU moving again-Rallys

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Mishar Rally 1:

Music and performers performing with Do the Locomotion
Ricarda Schmitz comes on stage:
Hello Mishar , Hello Europe.

Now I want to do a thought exercise a simple thought excercise that might or might not be about certain people but here we go. Imagine you vote for three leaders, they do not talk to you or communicate with you, they are required to vote on applications in a timely manner and don't do this but instead sit on it for over 6 months instead and then imagine the one who does vote gives no reason for their vote so if rejected an application can be improved in the future and imagine they put a budget of 47 billion Euros in an agency and none of it gets spent because of their inaction. Would you vote for those leaders , would you vote for one of those leaders who is running again. Of course not , they have after all failed you and the people , they have done the job for their C.V it would seem to book a nice future circuit of paid talks for their time as comissioner.

This might or might not be the last commission and why would you vote for this failure again. You know what would happen if in Duchian politics an agency was given 47 billion to spend 0 of it on my watch , I'd get crucified in the media and recalled and rightly so. The comission is being treated like a position to get a nice job title on your C.V that is clear from too many inactive commissioners you cannot get in contact with and who never reply. I will not be that comissioner. I promise a simple promise if elected I will do my duties , work to get reform of the EU into a working organisation, give more trust to local nations by working to get legislation setting up national EDA panels for smaller applications using local knowledges and expertise and crucially I will listen to nations all nations including yes the United Duchies and Reitzmag unlike a certain old candidate on the circuit here and also Czech Slavia who I have no beef with despite some of the differences between my home country and their government and who I believe it is important to listen to as a EUROPEAN candidate representing the EUROPEAN people not a national interest, I will be the EUROPEAN candidate.

It is essential my friends you have a commissioner who listens, who you can contact simply and the office will contact you back unlike the radio slience we have right now , that clears the backlog of applications and gets voting and approving major EDA projects. These are the issues that matter not posturing or grandstanding and photo oppurtunities serving you the people and delivering and frankly doing the damn job which many comissioners have failed to do in a row. This is why trust in the EU is low, this is why the EU is at risk of falling apart. I will be called anti-EU for daring to criticise this hallowed institution for suggesting its not working but you know who is the deluded fools who keep blindly insisting despite evidence of backlogs of applications , of national complaints of lack of communication , despite the lack of public statements from the commission and updates everything is fine, everything is going just swimmingly. They are the real threat to the EU and I urge you not to vote those people you know who they are in again. Don't let them use your vote for a good job title on their C.V while shafting you the working and middle class Europeans holding up 47 billion Euros of EDA funding by committing to zero reform. Instead lets vote for a fresh new start, lets get EU moving together. Vote me for a candidate who will actually do the job , unlike some others in this race.

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Rally Elthize:
Hello Elthize
I know you as a nation like the EU and want it to work much like most Europeans but sadly the EU hasn't done a whole lot of working for you over the past year. The EU in its current state is a dismal failure. Want to pass legislation to protect consumer rights and environment or other pressing issues for the European people , it won't happen because of obstruction or inaction. Want to actually get a development project done with EU funds it won't happen. Why? Because its all centralised in Europolis in three people , three people to approve all applications including the smallest development fund application of a few million Euros. Hopefully you can see thats not how you run a multibillion Euro organisation, imagine if your government had only the President and a few of their cabinet approving all benefit applications and all transactions of the Elthize government on their own and didn't have the office support workers approving anything, you'd never get anything done. Yet that is how the EDA a organisation of 47.1 Billion Euros and supposedly most important professional development organisation in Europe is run, by three comissioners and thats it. The result gridlock of funds not a single Euro has been spent of EDA money, money took off you the hardworking taxpayer to be sitting around in an account in Europolis doing nothing, thats worse than useless thats actually harmful because if your government had that money they could spend it on services and the public good but they cannot and if they want to counter it and deliver development funds that should be out there they have to raise taxes or borrow money effectively raising taxes on your kids to just get back to where they were.

The solution I propose is simple each nation should have a National Development Board under the EDA half apointed or selected by the memberstate in a way they see fit and half appointed and selected by the EU commission or EU in a way they see fit. They get given an allocation of money based on factors of development need and population and they approve applications within a framework provided by the EU of sustainable development. Being local they would use local context and knowledge no one in Europolis could possibly have for example is your local area public transport based, more care based or more micro-mobility based. Is your area denser or more rural. Your NDB would know this stuff because its formed of experts from the area and they can set up sub-comittees to deal with different types of applications based on expertise further localising the process and delivering decisions based on actual knowledge not some pre-conceived idea of one man in the centre. Now you might say but what about accountability and corruption well simply put each NDB would be audited reguarly to make sure money is effectively being spent, if its not or fraud is found reforms must be done or money will be cut off, but I ask you this what are the checks at the minute, suppose a group of three corrupt comissioners get in that all support a certain industry or corporation whats to stop them just approving funds only for that organisation right now, there is no oversight as of now. That is a fatal flaw , its doesn't even need corruption it just needs one to only have their national vision of development without understanding the local context and whole types of development can suddenly be without EU funds because of the ideological views of 3 people.That is now how you run a successful development agency and the numbers prove it 47.1 Billion Euros were handed to the EDA in December they have done nothing with it and its now June. Other agencies like the ESA aren't in a much better position, they are given funds but because everything must be approved at the centre or they are given very strict limited ways to spend it they cannot even launch a single sattelite for a Space organisation. All they can do is some vague notion of developing standards for the Space sector, thats not unity or doing good thats just money being wasted on an organisation that cannot do anything. I know of so many people in the EU agencies that want to do stuff, want to benefit the European people but can't because of a centralised EU bureaucracy machine trying to micromanage everything with a small number of people. The result is no projects get done and no good gets done just money sucked out of your pocket to sit around in accounts all year. This is not tolerable agencies need autonomy with oversight to be able to actually deliver, lets unleash the actual experts to allow them to do their jobs and deliver for the European people. People accuse me of being anti-EU because I criticise the running of the EU but I criticise it because it doesn't work, because its holding back unleashing the power of the EU. Because by actively calling any reforms of the EU to actually make it work is the real anti-EU move. I also question the value of the EDA when you have to go to Europolis even for the smallest grants, what organisation with just a few million in funds bidding for EDA money has the time or money to send their staff to Europolis multiple times, imagine how much easier it would be if all that was required was 400 Euro business trip to Forecoaster or St Lucas instead of a trip to Europolis. You could even have the member of staff home by night. We do not live in a wonderland where the EU works perfectly and needs no change lets not let this delusion of pretending we do take hold, you are all smarter than that.

I move on to communication. How many of you feel listened to by the EU comission? How many feel like the commission is actually communicating with you? I have rarely seen a communication from the commission , in fact when you contact them it can take weeks or months for a basic response. They can't even process a vote in the required time on applications, votes take months rather than the days they should the commission is essentially missing in action , sure it can come out with the odd statement and pop up with the odd statement on the situation in Istkalen but it needs to do more. You need a commission that's active responding to every message as soon as possible from the European citizens and nations, that's communicating whats going on , that you can see working . That is the job of a commissioner after all. I again ask if your president behaved in the way the commission as a whole has not just for this term but many terms would you accept it? I get the idea if your government behaved that way you would kick them out of office ASAP so why should the EU get away with it? Use your voice to vote for a commissioner that will actually do the job of the commissioner and no its not an excuse to say I have no time, if you have no time for the job don't run and let someone else who can run and do the job instead.

And I move on to the courts I think its time we end this election nightmare where we struggle to reach the numbers required regularly. We should have a pool of judges 5 from each nation sent in sitting on the pool for years not just a few months at a time. Each time a case comes in the relevent national judges that can't judge on it get removed from the selection process and five random nations get selected. Nations will have to actively select judges though and if there is inactivity those judges get replaced by more active judges. I also believe having to bring a case to the ECOJ is an issue, what if a member state scares its population into not bringing cases to ECOJ even though they break fundamental human rights under EU law, the ECOJ can do nothing. The court needs powers to prosecute , it needs powers to assess the situations in countries and laws coming in and if need be sue the country by launching proesecutorial action or we need an institution seperately that does this and brings cases to the ECOJ against nations perhaps run by selected, elected or appointed European Prosecutor , perhaps called the European Union Prosecutorial Organisation or EUPO. This would give teeth to legislation and the EU making countries actually follow EU law. This would protect the people of Europe. The situation in Istkalen only shows the shortcomings of the EU a clear breach of EU laws but nothing can be done because no one from Istkalen will sue because they are scared , and rightfully so, and this doesn't just happen in Istkalen there a several other EU states that have this issue. Look at Inimicus , look at North Diessan among others. We need this sort of reform to make the EU work. At the moment the EU can't spend money, can't administer projects and can't even enforce the few laws to protect Europeans that pass, it is a Do Nothing EU and that needs to change we need an EU that can actively serve its citizens that can actively protect its citizens and provide a platform for regional co-operation on big picture issues that can only be solved through European cooperation such as on the environment. I am proposing a Do Alot EU rather than a Do Nothing EU.

Under me I would put an amendment in the constitution where if an EU official does not respond within a week of a message being recieved they recieve a strike, if they miss a deadline such as on voting on EDA proposals they recieve a strike and on the first strike you get a warning on the second strike you get a warning and on the third strike you lose your job and another selection or election process is run to replace that person. This would be extended over key holiday periods such as Christmas or Easter which would be recess periods in the calendar or if there is a recess but otherwise you would be expected to respond and just do the job you were selected or elected for. We need this reform urgently otherwise we will get more and more EU comissions that don't work or who are lazy just running because it looks good on their C.V for their book signing tours or media careers. That should not be tolerated and won't be under me , I cannot promise to do this overnight but vote me and I can start delivery on delivering a responsive , effective EU that's easy to interact with. If you want this vision of the EU vote me and I can kickstart the reform to make it happen.

Thank you and Lets Get EU moving again!