Spot on Sir Tigger.
Furthermore, the EU sponsored and supported the protesters who overthrew the elected Ukraine President. He may have been corrupt and friendly towards Putin, but he was elected all the same.
The game was kind of given away by the fact that all the protesters had the same brand new jackets, tents etc. indicating that someone was paying to buy them in industrial quantities.
This was during the tenure of Cathy Ashton as EU foreign minister (or some similar job title).
She started out as Treasurer of CND - refusing to say if they had taken money from the Soviets,
She rose without trace during the Blair years. never stood for election to any post, served in many positions on the UK gravy train, then ended up in the Lords where she was given the job of steering the Lisbon treaty through the chamber. Her reward for this from McRuin, was to be given a very long holiday from the lords in Brussels for as many years as suited her, where Blair expected her to prepare the ground for him to become President of Europe.
It didn't quite work out for him (yet) but she ended up in a very senior position where she earned more than the President of the U.S. while she blundered her way around Europe and came close to starting WW3 in the process.
An utterly disgraceful and useless woman, but very typical of the elite who run the show in the Western world these days.