It seems to me that the Brussels machine has turned into a huge and unwieldy monster. There are thousands of civil servants and thousands of lobbyists talking to each other. The estimate is that there are some 15,000 lobbyists in Brussels.
These lobbyists and bureaucrats appear to use too much information as a way of diverting people's attention.
One of my favourite Winston Churchill quotes is, on writing to a friend, 'Sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter'. It takes effort and time to pare things down to their essence.
The bloated Brussels elite appear to use lazy thinking when it comes to governing Europe. There's loads of activity going on - lots of people debating, discussing, and lawmaking, scrabbling around like headless chickens pecking away.
But how much of this activity is producing real progress?
Libertas will slim down the waistline of this bulging bureaucratic machine. Libertas will aim to force the creation of a simple new more useful European Constitution and devolve many powers back to nation states, which after all know better on many issues how to govern themselves.
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