Governor Jerry Brown made California the fourth state in the US on Monday to allow physician assisted dying. Yes, only the fourth, and it's disappointing that the numbers (or the lack of) overshadow the real achievement. Everyone has the right to live, and everyone should have the right to die. Of course life is sacred, but the opponents of this law must not seriously think that California's true intentions are to have a genocide. They simply just want to help those people who have no hope of a cure, and are suffering. That's it, there is no story here, Everyone is allowed to make their decisions about their life and body. If you can go and get an abortion from a professional, you should also be able to go to your doctor to die. They are there to help you and to lessen your pain. In any way possible. Of course we support that background checks must take place, and several doctors (including psychologists) should sign off before you are allowed to die. You sho
Marine Le Pen, the popular leader of France’s far right party, Front National, has announced the formation of a new bloc in the European Parliament on Tuesday.
The group, called Europe of Nations and Freedoms, will provide a bigger voice and power for the French leader, who is widely seen as the face of new politics in Europe. Together, the Eurosceptic, anti-Immigration parties will be eligible for more funding and time on the debate floor. It should certainly spice up things even more in the continent.
Le Pen formed this group in last May after her party won the EU elections in France, but at the time was unable to collect enough support from other European countries. This is what has changed now.
She was now able to gain more than enough support from groups such as Italy’s Lega Nord, and Geert Wilders’ Dutch Party for Freedom. She also has support from Austria, Poland, Belgium and Janice Atkinson from the UK. One notable missing party is Nigel Farage’s UKIP, but Mr. Farage already heads another bloc in Brussels which is very similar to Le Pen’s.
Janice Atkinson though is a former UKIP MEP, who was expelled from the party not so long ago due to expenses scandal and over remarks she made towards the East-Asian community back in Britain. Nigel Farage has previously stated that racism is not allowed in UKIP, and that is why both Ms. Atkinson had to go and why he didn’t form a coalition with Ms. Le Pen.
Ms. Le Pen however has been praised for modernizing National Front and starting a populist approach in France that has not been racist at all. National Front is technically now the second biggest party in France, overtaking the embattled President Hollande’s Socialists, and is expected to be head-to-head against Nicolas Sarkozy’s Republicans in the next Presidential election within 2 years’ time.
While it is clear that the members of this new coalition have some differences, together in a united way they will be much stronger and will be expected to grow over the years, both nationally in each member state and on a continent wide European level as well.
The timing of this new bloc couldn’t be more interesting and better for Le Pen, as the debate over the migrant crisis will continue this month in Brussels. And the proposed asylum seeking quota system could be jeopardized.
Appeared simultaneously on The Moderate (www.themodcon.com) on 17th June 2015.
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