Under the guise of the fight against corruption, the EU institutions are continuing their course of damage to the European economy. Surveillance, prosecution and punishment are becoming commonplace means of an overpowering police state structure.

Howitzers are rolling through militarily neutral Austria without state permission. NATO member Hungary has apparently refused these very transports.

With a new EU directive on money laundering, cash payments over 10,000 euros will no longer be possible. A separate super-authority will be able to monitor directly and impose heavy fines.

With funds from the European Peace Facility, the European Union now plans to procure munition for Ukraine.The EU is once again contradicting itself as a "peace project". It is high time to invest these billions in diplomatic negotiations.

Among the many negative developments we have seen recently in Munich, the crisis of diplomacy is evident. Diplomatic meetings have the character of elitist private clubs and are held in parallel with international organisations.

The question of provability of vaccine damage associated with Covid-19 is difficult. Could excess mortality and causes of death be clues? While we look for evidence in the numbers, the technostructure is already striking its next blow.

Domestic intelligence services are being politically instrumentalised to criminalise legitimate and permitted political criticism by civil society.

The media elites have discovered a "new guiding culture" in what they call "morality. Politicians are guided by this "code of values" and produce policies that they believe will please the media and thus conform to majority opinion.

The information policy of fact checkers encourages stereotypical, quick and unconscious thinking. Very few fact-checkers stimulate strenuous, logical, calculating and conscious thinking.

The (re)production of simple political explanations is encouraged by digital media. Fact-checking platforms act as production sites of the simplest opinion-making, in the service of the technostructure.