D-Day

June 6, 1944 will be always remembered as a prelude of the end of the World War II. More or less as June 7, 2009 will be remembered as a prelude of the end of European Union.  That is not a big catastroph. I'm sure there will be celebrations, music, party all night. But nobody will realize this big dream of European Union will be tomorrow more close to an end. That will be quite clear after all the poles are closed all over Europe and the results are finally known: the majority of european citizens will not vote. That should be an alert to Brussels. But I'm sure that, as usual, everybody will neglect that. 

Portugal was a member of EU for 15 days when I was born. That means I don't remember dicatureship, colonial war, empire or poverty. During 20 years I grew up seeing everybody getting rich. People was living better and better. In a short period Portugal changed a lot and was able to adopt european livestyle standards. Country was not more rich: the resources were the same. But no doubt was getting more developed. Portugal can be grateful to the EU. Without the EU Portugal would be the same it was before I was born. 23 years later people forgot all that. They became seriously concerned with the crisis, their lifestyle and all they got. They realized all they got was not for granted. EU is also not for granted. It will come to an end one day, the same way everything ends. The Euro will finish, the European Parliament will be dissolved, the Comission will no longer exist. Everything will be like before the World War. Countries will hate eachtoher openly and Europe will be again a dark continent. That's how things are. Today leaders are happy celebrating the D-Day. tomorrow they will be happy or sad because of the elections and in few years all that will be gone. Nothing is forever. Not even the crisis...