[nona]

The first three comments within the hour that this article was posted, were made by a 10-minutes old account and seem suspiciously like anti-EU astroturfing.

Makes me hope or wish for a cross-website pseudonymous karma system, to at least rein in this kind of public opinion gaming.

Back on-topic: this website seems to be a net positive, already it's challenging some of my preconceptions in that some EU member states are apparently more or less corrupt than I was expecting.

[supriyo-biswas]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [e-mail] and we'll look at the data.

[nona]

Fair enough, I'll keep it in mind for next time.

[euroderf]

But then again, evidence is evidence.

[paganel]

I've been on this forum for 16 years, 17 years soon if God permits, I've just added an anti-European Commission comment somewhere else in this thread, hope that helps keeping score with who's saying what.

[arp242]

Pretty sure your comment wasn't what was intended, as it hadn't been posted yet. And let's not pretend the comments being referred to are reasonable. They're flagged and dead for a reason.

[gafage]

"revert the EU to its original purpose, before it was taken over by overreaching bureaucrats: A free trade area."

That seems completely reasonable.

[f_devd]

Not sure where the quote is from but EU has always been a political alliance, maybe you/they mean the EEA?

[paganel]

> Not sure where the quote is from but EU has always been a political alliance,

That's demonstrably not true. Granted, that's what Jean Monnet and his disciples had (and still have) in mind, but that's not what was presented as the face of this supra-state association as soon as the 2000s.

That's why many people are so upset about it since the gloves have come off about the true intent of those Jean Monnet followers, which by my (previously stated) estimation started happening in the last 10-15 years.