Thirst for Power - His only Goal in EU

French president Nicolas Sarkozy claims in a recent interview, that the real presidency in Euro country issues belongs to him and Angela Merkel of Germany.


With decades of effort we have managed to build up a union of the European countries; aiming to form a wider than one-nation understanding. And then comes up something like Sarkozy with his 19th century views of international policy, and apparently with little understanding of what EU is about. All he seems to pursuit in EU, is national and personal influence and power.

I wonder if Sarkozy thinks he is Napoleon reborn? Is he perhaps secretly dreaming of leading France to a new glorious position as the ruler of all Europe? With him as the emperor? - Well, together with Angela Merkel, if absolutely unavoidable.

Let's put higher tax on diesel fuel!

The Finnish Government has just decided to increase taxation of diesel fuel.

The Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen admitted that the decision was made to maximize tax intake, now that diesel cars are more popular than ever before.

Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen

It is commonly believed that diesel cars are less polluting than petrol cars. And less pollution is exactly what Finland officially is aiming for. - Yet Finland has a long history of punishing diesel usage.

For decades there has been a punishment tax for diesel cars: If you own a diesel car, you have to pay an annual 'diesel tax', even if you never drive your car. You are quite simply punished for owning a diesel car, and not using petrol. - Petrol cars use up more fuel, you see.

So now they decided to increase the fuel tax on diesel. "To maximize fuel tax intake". Without thinking for a moment, what the decision means for the prise of goods, food, and anything that needs to transported by diesel trucks in this country of long transport distances.


"To maximize fuel tax intake". - I wonder how long Finland can continue on this extremely weird policy of taxing motor vehicles and traffic in ways that are not in unison with the EU regulations.