Dear Tanja, as a Member of European Parliament and VP of Socialists and Democrats, responsible for Communication, you should know better than to spread these false allegations and the odd info that Brussels is too often perceived as a closed circle of both political elites and business lobbyists is actually a cognitive bias, more like a stereotype or rather a popular misconception due to bad promotion itself or reversed feedback campaigning made by people responsible for spreading these false memes such as yourself and I think that is a clear proof of a complete lack of professionalism. I’m sorry to disagree with your core beliefs, but European policies are not weak nor its the formal language too rigid nor do we completely lost confidence that our chosen leaders will stop working with for the people’s interests, but rather we do have great faith, we vote, we stand by our leaders, especially those who fight climate change, we remain proactive and keep our civic discourse more objective and proper.
As you, me and every citizen out there has the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union, in the run-up to the European election of 2019, we all need to make sure that we’re going to be more proactive and spread the good word while having trust in the people responsible will do their assignment while successfully managing the principle of the Spitzenkandidaten, that is, the election of the President of the European Commission among pan-European lead candidates of the European political parties, will be repeated on the fundamental basis of transparency.
As humans we evolved on this planet over the last hundreds of thousands of years in an environment that is local and linear and we’re living in a world that is totally globalized. Something happens in China, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden or South Korea, it affects you in Germany, Poland and them in The United States of America literally just a few minutes later, through lower stock prices, high carbon taxes, renewable energy sources, solar cities, news, whatever it might be. That’s a global planet we’re living on. Multifactorial causative type of disruptive stress can actually affect and challenge our linear thinking as the only constant is change itself therefore the world is surely changing either incrementally or moreover exponentially so we need to stay proactive, green and fresh in any way possible needed, be it essentially and clearly electorally and afterwards be it both environmentally-friendly and eco-effectively and therefore economically efficient too!