There are elections for the European parliament every 5 years.

Enough of the nationalistic verbiage! Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has got it right on the "money":

"The story so far: In the years leading up to the 2008 crisis, Europe, like America, had a runaway banking system and a rapid buildup of debt. In Europe’s case, however, much of the lending was across borders, as funds from Germany flowed into southern Europe. This lending was perceived as low risk. Hey, the recipients were all on the euro, so what could go wrong?
For the most part, by the way, this lending went to the private sector, not to governments. Only Greece ran large budget deficits during the good years; Spain actually had a surplus on the eve of the crisis.
Then the bubble burst. Private spending in the debtor nations fell sharply. And the question European leaders should have been asking was how to keep those spending cuts from causing a Europe-wide downturn.
Instead, however, they responded to the inevitable, recession-driven rise in deficits by demanding that all governments — not just those of the debtor nations — slash spending and raise taxes. Warnings that this would deepen the slump were waved away. “The idea that austerity measures could trigger stagnation is incorrect,” declared Jean-Claude Trichet, then the president of the European Central Bank. Why? Because “confidence-inspiring policies will foster and not hamper economic recovery.”
But the confidence fairy was a no-show.
Wait, there’s more. During the years of easy money, wages and prices in southern Europe rose substantially faster than in northern Europe. This divergence now needs to be reversed, either through falling prices in the south or through rising prices in the north. And it matters which: If southern Europe is forced to deflate its way to competitiveness, it will both pay a heavy price in employment and worsen its debt problems. The chances of success would be much greater if the gap were closed via rising prices in the north.
But to close the gap through rising prices in the north, policy makers would have to accept temporarily higher inflation for the euro area as a whole. And they’ve made it clear that they won’t. Last April, in fact, the European Central Bank began raising interest rates, even though it was obvious to most observers that underlying inflation was, if anything, too low."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/opinion/krugman-killing-the-euro.html?hp

"For the past decade Britain has outstrippe­d France as the major diplomatic and military voice in the world community emanating from the EU block"

In what way? The only thing that springs to mind is Iraq and Afghanistan - hardly a flattering reference.

Before you quote to many presidents of branches of the Federal reserve, remember the Cain served on the board of a Fed branch, so economice knowledge is not a requirement. Als be honest an admit that the words and link were taken out of contex.

so, were these interest rates manipulated to take control of a europe that was intentionally made financially unstable for the world's central banks to then come in and save them..?

mervyn king head of the bank of england is also the chief head of all the world's central banks...

and now that the u.s. is moving out of iraq by the end of december the u.s. can now focus on their moves in iran a nation that the u.k. has just broken all banking and political ties with..!
can we see how financial powers can manipulate nations politically and where that doesn't work can do so militarily..? so who are these people that seem to own the world...

The low interest rates were also the undoing of Spain and Ireland, who very rashly started a property bubble. If it were not for this, the Spanish government was actually reasonably good on the economic front.

Dude, you can't say things like that. In the states it's pretty common to compare politicians to hate-figures but in Europe (where tens of millions died) it's still not really the done thing.

Just letting you know.

he was a pro-nazi politician, it's not acceptable to make such comparisons

Never worn a uniform in a combat zone, right? The last quote probably answer you best:

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Churchill.
"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting." -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other."-- Thomas Carlyle