The Fall of Europe?

The fall of Europe, the largest execution of democracy ever seen by man kind, 500 million people eligible to vote for one parliament, 500 million peoples' lives being affected by this one council directly in their every day lives, at their work, at their home.

Yet, this has failed, Europe has started to fall, the depression triggered one of the largest waves of austerity measures being taken with countries helping each other to try and survive, wave after wave of bankruptcies, of governments failing to cope with the debt which they created, for their utopian democratic solution to all problems.

Now, now the people have lost faith, they have lost faith in the governments which have led them though tough times, because these are the same governments that led them into them. The people are hungry, they are poor, they are without jobs, they see other countries, other nationals come to their country and do the jobs which they had ignored and did not want to do because it was beneath them.

Now the people want their independence back, the independence from each other, and to what cost, to the birth of ultra-nationalism. Ultra-nationalism has risen, the results of this election have shown the power of these parties, have shown the unease and distrust the people have in the current system. This show the system is not working, and something needs to be done before these ultra-nationalists, these neo-nazis, these communists these extremists take over what we hold dear to us.

Many of us do not realise, what Europe is, what Europe symbolises. Europe is the nation that the people built from centuries of war, of strife. It is the culmination of thousands of years of conflict, of culture, of bonds being built and broken. This earthquake which is resonating though its lands right now should not be the fall of this system, as flawed as it is, as ineffective as it is. No, this should be the wake up call, this should be energy that we use to fix what is wrong, this is where we let our voice to be heard.

This is where true leaders will shine, those who can keep their people together, those leaders which can get the trust back, the trust which was lost. We need a leader, who can make us believe in the European dream once more, it will be five more years till the next election. It will be five long years of  hard work, but I still have hope that the system can work, I still believe in the dream of a democratic world.

I still believe those around me can see what I can see, and soon the change will come. This was a great loss for the EU, it has shown that the people do not trust it any more, but this should not be the reason why we give up on so much potential. Let this be the moment that the European Union win our trust back and make us believe once more in this dream.