1.

THE IMMIGRATION DISASTER

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Perpetually indecisive, from summit to summit, the European Union has shown an incredible
weakness in front of the massive influx of unwanted immigration that looms on the Southern
horizon. In 2014 alone, there were 625,000 legal requests for asylum in Europe (Eurostat), an
increase of 44% over the previous year, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Italy has had to welcome 175,000 new illegal migrants, crossing the Mediterranean Sea, from
across the Middle East and Africa. The presence of illegal immigrants in Italy is estimated at
around 250,000 permanently. Of all the migrants entering Europe, a maximum of 10% are
deserving of the status of refugee, but all those who are refused such status are let free into Italy
regardless and can therefore travel North to other European nations, with a preference for the
United Kingdom (see the Calais problem) and Germany. The countries most affected are Italy,
Germany, United Kingdom, France and Sweden
Frontex, the European agency in charge of helping Member States control illegal immigration on
the outside borders of the Union, is helpless. There is no European coordination on the issue. The
Schengen internal border agreement between European countries is now showing its inefficiency
when faced with the problem of illegal immigration.
The European navies that are helping Italy control the Mediterranean situation (Triton operation),
go out as far as the Libyan coast to collect illegal migrants from sinking ships and then proceed to
bring them to Italy. These migrants are destined to never leave Europe again. The only action the
European Commission has taken until now, is to try to impose a quota for asylum seekers to
European countries, at the level of 20,000 per year. The people of Europe expect the European
Union to close its border to illegal migrants, firmly. Australia has shown the way forward and has
successfully stopped the flow of illegal migrants to its shores.
Moreover, there is a very real risk of seeing terrorists and jihadists enter Europe, taking advantage
of the current situation of uncontrolled illegal immigration. This is a Trojan Horse danger that is
being taken very seriously by G. de Kerchove, the EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator.
Of total migrants, 80% of educated migrant go to North America while 80% of illiterate migrants
come to Europe. Poverty, illiteracy, absence of qualification and social unrest already threaten the
European social models that cannot cope with this permanent influx. This has to stop.
The ADDE also opposes the integration of Turkey into the European Union and also opposes
further expansion of the EU, which is losing its continental coherence.
2. HEAR THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
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Our European democracies are drifting further and further away from real democracy. The
European Union; the Commission, Parliament & Court of Justice are controlled by an unelected
elite class of some 60,000 civil servants (34,000 in the Commission alone) that clearly despises
the people of Europe. They dont take any notice, election after election, of the requests made by
the majority of european citizens. They feel that they know better.
On issues such as immigration, fiscality, security, penalties for criminals, normalisation, defence
and Europe, the ADDE defends the idea of organising referenda to obtain a decision by the
citizens themselves, based on the Swiss model.
The European authorities treat this with contempt, calling it populism. Eurocrats even feel that
they know better than the elected national governments in many instances, threatening member
states if they dare discuss issues which they deem as forbidden. An example of this is Hungarian
government trying to discuss the re-introduction of the death penalty, this was deemed Forbidden!
The president of the European Commission even addressed the elected Prime Minister V. Orban
as dictator.
The ill-conceived renewable policy for the production of Energy in Europe, was driven by Green
lobbyists, and hastily applied by the Commission on false assumptions. These failing policies must
be submitted to the people and thrown out if they deem them to be unacceptable, if only because
of the incredible cost and total inefficiency of the policy.

The European Commission, helped by the left leaning parties in the European Parliament have
threatened retaliation measures against countries that would not remain aligned and would
discuss forbidden issues.
The ADDE thinks that divisive issues should not be swept under the carpet, but instead they should
be frankly presented to the populous with clear questions in a popular consultation, a referendum,
with a threshold needed in terms of a minimum number of participants required. The results must
then be taken into consideration and applied by the countrys government, modify its legislation
accordingly.
European citizens cant be gagged by an unelected and therefore irresponsible group of
Commissioners in Brussels, who dictate all their policies to our national governments. Sovereignty
is and must remain a national matter.
3. INTERNAL FISCAL COMPETITION
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For the past 4 decades at the very least, there has been internal fiscal competition between
countries within the EU. Companies, especially large multinational corporations discreetly go about
and do their shopping around Europe to get the most advantageous tax rate for themselves.
Tax rates for large international companies reach in Luxembourg for example, or the republic of
Ireland an incredibly low 1%. At the same time, small businesses and craftsmen around Europe,
struggle to make ends meet with tax levels at a European average of 26%.
Even between these small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), those who can afford to move,
can delocalise, within Europe and re-install in another country where aid for relocation or for the
hiring staff is provided, as well as other measures such as temporary tax immunity or special tax
rates.
Still, jobs in the main in the rapidly de-industrialising Europe, are created only by those small
businesses, who are gagged by Brussels and not allowed to have their say or to express
themselves in a referendum.
Luxemburg has been one of the largest champions of unfair tax competition in an effort to attract
multinationals to the country. The question is who was the Minister of Finance and then the Prime
Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg over the last 19 years? None other than the President
of the European Commission, the Social-Christian Jean-Claude Juncker (PPE).
The ADDE strongly believes that Mr. Juncker should have resigned when his role in bending
European rules and his personal actions against the European taxpayer was exposed in 2014 but
to no avail. Mr. Juncker was supported in Parliament by the traditional parties, left and right, too
scared of the populist parties to throw Mr. Juncker out of the Commission and designate a
politician with a clear record in his place. Shame on the European institutions, further away from
the people than ever!
The ADDE opposes the creation of any European wide sweeping taxation measures and we want
to re-industrialise Europe, by fully supporting SMEs, entrepreneurs and craftsmen who have
stayed in Europe and not delocalised to locations such as China. European SMEs are creating
jobs in Europe, they need our full support.
4. SECURITY IN OUR CITIES
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The absence of any real immigration policy in Europe and the malevolent rules of the Council of
Europe about the obligation to welcome all of those in the world seeking asylum in Europe, has
made it that inner cities in some countries, but more often social suburbs have increasingly
become ghettoes, populated by poor, uneducated migrants, for whom our countries can in actual
fact supply no jobs. Since the traditional parties have let Europe de-industrialise itself at a rapid
pace and have irresponsibly claimed that Europes future was in services. This was built on the
false ideology that services could exist without industry and without production. The result has
been an average of more than 10% unemployment in Europe, while North America has less than
5%.

These poor ghetto populations have unfortunately seen the rise of drug traffickers, prostitution and
illegal trafficking of all kinds. Any small spark such as the arrest of a carjacker, can launch violent
demonstrations with widespread damage caused such as, the burning of hundreds of cars, the
destruction of the public infrastructure and the looting of shops, as happened in London in August
2011, Paris in 2005 and each subsequent year in many no-go zones in France, where even the
police or the fire brigade do not dare intervene anymore. Our police forces are immediately
accused of racism in case of arrest and have great difficulties in controlling these angry mobs.
During the New Year in 2015, only 940 vehicles were set on fire in the French ghettoes during the
night. This is better than the year before, when 1,064 cars were burnt down, a reduction of 12%.
The French socialist government should not be proud of this reduction as it shows their failings in
stark detail.
The police must get the tools needed to control these lawless areas that have been created due to
the lack of policy by the traditional parties. Zero tolerance should be the rule, starting with small
incivilities. This is the only way to re-introduce respect of the rule of law in our countries.
5. ENERGY: THE NEFARIOUS ROLE OF EUROPE
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Energy policy is the first time that national governments have let Europe go as far as deciding a
Climate policy literally entirely on its own, with only limited consultation of the Member States, so
urgent was the supposed need to stop global warming. The Energy policy that was created has
been the worst of all the European policies, the most expensive and very much the most naive,
destroying jobs by the thousands.
For the sake of communication, the European Commission, who were severely lobbied by Green
interest groups (GreenPeace and others) as well as the new industries such as solar and wind
energy lobbyists, produced its Climate & Energy package in 2009: 20% renewables, 20% reduction
of CO2 emissions and 20% energy efficiency improvements by 2020 or to be put another way
20-20-20.
Although it was a marketing and communication dream 20-20-20, Directive 2009/28/EC was
published in 2009 and is total disaster. Only the aim of improving energy efficiency was actually
needed.
The rest was useless and in truth a lie when it came to pseudo-renewables, mainly solar and wind
energy sources. These are intermittent sources of energy, and make it necessary to double the
investment by installing power plants burning fossil fuels to compensate for the lack of reliable
abundance of light and/or wind. The pseudo-renewable policy is trebling the cost of electricity (due
to subsidies) and having the adverse effect of actually increasing CO2 emissions. These policies
must be scrapped immediately. However the European Commission is aiming for more by 2030!
The craze will stop, but when? How many billions of taxpayers money will Europe have
squandered on these lobby pressured policies before a stop is put to them?
The ADDE is a partisan of real renewables, when applicable (biomass, hydraulic), and is in favour
of developing new promising nuclear technologies, that dont produce nuclear waste, dont emit
CO2 and dont need pressurised reactors. European research centres are working on these
solutions that will be conceived and built in Europe, by European companies. Europe must
completely revise its destructive energy policies.

6. BRUSSELS NOW: NOT THE EUROPE WE WANT

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Yes, we are all Europeans and we have a common heritage. But that does not mean that we must
aim for a European melting pot, where national identities disappear.
The ADDE believes in a Europe of nations. The great promise of Europe has been met: it is a vast
free trade area. It is the greatest achievement of Europe: the suppression of the customs barriers
to trade. It helped compensate the high fiscality, but this could have been reached by a European

administration that would have been far smaller than the present structure with its nearly 60,000
people occupied in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and other places.
The USA has some 72,000 federal civil servants, but the US state structure is a much lighter one
compared to the European national states + regional structures.
Administering Europe is very costly. The administration costs 8.6 Billion EUR/year (2015) of a total
budget of 161.8 billion EUR. Eurocrats are also very highly paid and pay limited taxes to Europe.
Members of the European Parliament dont even bother to work 5 days a week, but get paid for
staying at home. The simple fact is that being in Brussels gets them 300 a day, 6,000 a month,
on top of their salary.
Many arrive on a Monday night, to clock in before 7pm, get their daily compensation and leave on
the Friday morning. Even the President of the Commission prefers to work out of Luxemburg!
The European Parliament is the place where the ADDE Members of Parliament are active in
questioning and dismantling European bureaucracy, confronting on a daily basis the contempt of
traditional parties for the populists, who listen to the people who voted for them.
7. A EUROPEAN DEFENCE?
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Yes, Defence is important. Several European nations have significant armies and nuclear
capabilities. They can and do work together, examples such as when the British, French, Belgian,
Polish and other air forces commenced air strikes on Libya or on Iraq and Syria. These are
examples of intense cooperation. The same for the European navies protecting the sea routes off
Somalia or in the Mediterranean.
The ADDE is for European defence based on the collaboration between national governments and
existing armies. Europe does not need the full integration of its capabilities in a European army.
The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, who desperately tries to get
credibility, declared on March 8, 2015, that Europe needs an integrated army to defend itself
against Russia. Russia has not shown any aggressive military actions towards any of the
European member states.
The ADDE does not want Europe to risk a major confrontation over the annexation of Crimea by
Russia (after a referendum showing clearly the will of the Crimeans to re-join Russia) and the
events in Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, is not in Europe. For Mr. Juncker an
army common to the 28 EU countries would enable Europe to rationalise its military spending and
favour the military integration of all member states. Such an army would enable Europe to have a
foreign and security policy. Mr. Juncker has lost all credibility with such declarations, this is a recipe
for soaring costs and little efficiency.
Present day warfare is characterised by low intensity local conflicts or civil wars that can be dealt
with by limited multinational task forces.
All Europe needs is a small multinational military organisation to coordinate investments and
collaboration. We certainly dont need a fully-integrated European army.

8. UNEMPLOYMENT: THE EUROPEAN PLAGUE

Eurostat estimates that 23.7 million men and women are unemployed in the EU-28 (March 2015),
of whom 18.1 million were in the Euro area (EA-19). The Euro area unemployment rate was 11.3
% in March 2015, slightly down from March 2014 with the EU-28 unemployment rate at 9.8 % in
March 2015, down from 10.4% the previous year.
During the same period, the unemployment rate in North America has been at a much lower rate of
7.25%.
It is even worse than it seems: over the last decade, the unemployment rate in North America was
very often half (5%) of what was found in Europe (10%).

The European job market is rigid and inflexible. This has resulted in high double digit
unemployment. The North American market on the other hand is dynamic and flexible. The
European Union has increased and entrenched its rigidness, causing high unemployment.
But a more important dynamic is that all western European countries cannot be lumped together.
Labour markets are different: in 2015, Germany recorded 4.7% unemployed while Greeces and
Spains unemployment was 25.7% and 23% respectively.
It clearly shows that there is not a one size fits all solution. The ADDE does not want a Social
Europe as demanded by socialist trade unions and by the Socialist and Social democratic groups
in the European parliament.
The language and culture barriers throughout Europe makes it the case that a skilled worker
cannot simply move to another country to find a job. Europe is not America and as such, social
policies are better dealt with at the national level.
Social dumping, organised through the arrival of unwanted and unskilled immigrants is not
acceptable either.
The ADDE nevertheless believes that Europe must make it possible for professionals to move
within Europe: architects, doctors and other professions should see their diplomas accepted in
countries other than their own, with clearly defined harmonisation demands. Europe does not need
massive armies of eurocrats for such actions.
9. NORMS PARALYZING INDUSTRY

Standards and norms are useful. They help industry ensure the safety of products and facilitate the
streamlining of production. But the European institutions have gone too far in the last few decades
in an effort to define, calibrate and control everything, from the curvature of bananas to the safety
of machines.
One of the latest examples of this ever-increasing burden of European standards, is the efforts of
the European Commission to control cheese producers and forbid the production of cheese
produced from raw milk. The pretext to this action is consumers safety, to avoid the development
of dangerous bacteria such as listeria.
The best camembert or brie cheeses would disappear from our shops, simply because unelected
civil servants go too far, without any proof of the need for such decisions, resulting in the
destruction of producers lives and a reduction in the quality of products that we like. Charles,
Prince of Wales came out to defend, the quality of French cheese made with raw milk.
Another example is the compulsory disappearance of incandescent lamp bulbs, to be replaced by
new types of lamps which are much more expensive and have enabled some large industrial
groups to impose a full replacement of the market, without any clear gain for Europe. These new
lamps also have recycling problems and their environmental footprint has been shown to not be
what was promised.
The ADDE wants to limit standardisation to safety issues and refuses the intense lobbying by large
industrial groups, trying to impose costly solutions that dont benefit the public. Enticing industry to
develop harmonised solutions, such as harmonising computer or telephone chargers, with the aim
of serving the public at large.
10. OUR YOUTH
P10In March 2015, 4.8 million young people (under 25) were unemployed in the EU-28, of whom
3.2 million were in the euro area. In March 2015, the youth unemployment rate was 20.9 % in the
EU-28 and 22.7 % in the euro area. The lowest rates were observed in Germany (7.2 %), Austria
(10.5 %), Denmark and the Netherlands (both 10.8 %), and the highest in Greece (50.1 % in
January 2015) and Spain (50.1 %).
Hard hit by unemployment due to the wrong social policies, young people in Europe must be
helped to recreate an entrepreneurial network and put a Europe of nations on the right track for the
future.
One of the very few successful European programmes is ERASMUS. The youth in the ADDE want
to democratise the access to the Erasmus scheme and re-enforce the partnerships between higher

education institutions. Greater access will give greater opportunity to large portions of the young
population and promote diverse cultures and languages, which creates the rich tapestry of our
European identity.
The ADDE youth wants to create a European encyclopaedia: an Internet platform showcasing the
cultural and artistic heritage of all European countries (including theatre, literature, music, art,
cinema), accessible in every language.
The ADDE wants a pan European business development platform that promotes entrepreneurial
activity. Special focus will be given to the different fields of business and the relevant opportunities
and constraints of each country within each field (competition, taxation, regulation, etc).
In order to properly face the challenges of globalisation, the ADDE supports the idea of business
sponsorship within the context of higher education institutions, with specific interest to those that
look to reach European and global enterprise.
The ADDE wants Europe to create a European Enterprise Volunteer Service that will give 18-30
year olds work experience abroad, working within European businesses (regardless of nationality),
while benefitting from a certain level of pay and a guaranteed term of apprenticeship.
Direct democracy consists of using the totality of the political and institutional means through which
the citizens participate to the government of their country.
In a democratic system, the people is the element on which the whole system is built. It is therefore
logical and legitimate that the political life of democratic countries, articulates itself around the
people, its satisfaction, its safety, prosperity and well-being.
All countries which are members of the European Union, live in a system of representative
democracy. It means that the national sovereignty is shared between the people and their elected
representatives.
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Nonetheless, without adequate means to control of the elected representatives, a representative
democracy may drift towards an oligarchy, in which a small minority of politicians maitains itself in
power and legislates without taking the public opinion into consideration.
Throughout the European Union, the continent nations are driven by a handful of elected
representatives in the direction of establishing a centralized federal European state, governed by
technocrats. Though this project is largely refused by the citizens of Europe, the drifting of the
democratic systems leads to a monopoly of political life, by the promoters of a federal Europe.
The alignment of the dominant political parties and of a large majority of the media confiscates any
form of public debate. Without public debate, the voice of the peple cannot be heard. The result of
all this is that national elections take place, knwing the the policies are already decided. Another
consequence is the absence of representation of the ideas and opinions of the voters. Finally,
extreme opinions, confict and resentment between European nations are growing non-stop.
Confronted to this alliance between the government parties and the financial structures that detain
the large media, the peoples can only count on themselves to promote their own interests. It is the
reason why it is necessary to reintroduce the constituting elements of direct democracy at the heart
of the representative institutions.
The referendum, the popular initiative, the democratic control tools needed to stop misuses,
privileges, wasting by elites which are relentlessly asking for more sacrifice without ever applying
them to themselves: these are a few means of common sense which would enable the politicians
and the citizens to walk together in the same direction.

The political institutions of representative democracy are indispensable to the government of a

nation. But the popular consultation and its satisfaction are indispensable to the very existence of a
democratic state.
It is in order to warn against the drifts of representative democracy, but also to familiarize and
promote the tools of direct democracy that the ADDE was founded. Our analysis and solutions aim
at preparing the great political alternation in European democracies in the XXIst century.
The people will do it by imposing their ideas and by mobilizing as of today.