AUTOMATION IN ADMINISTRATION

Increasing efficiency and reducing bureaucracy in the EU

The theme of Natural Law government can be summarised in the expression "Automation in Administration". The Government of Nature operates with supreme efficiency, using what is known in physics as the "principle of least action".

Nature's intelligence spontaneously computes the path of minimum effort for any action.

Through this principle of supreme economy, the whole of the universe is silently and efficiently governed. The Natural Law Party applies this principle in designing its approach to administration and setting policy in each area. Effective government is streamlined government; it absorbs as little as possible of the taxpayers’ money in conducting its tasks silently and efficiently. Nowhere is this principle more needed than in the affairs of the European Union. Precious financial resources from each country are needlessly spent in simply maintaining the over-manned, over-complex, and inefficient bureaucracy of the various components of the European administrative machinery.

Not only is an overly bureaucratic administrative system expensive; it is actually less able to fulfil its mandate to serve the people than a slimmer administration. There is so much inertia within the system as it administers itself that little energy is available for its external functions. The extent of inertia has recently been illustrated by the inability of the Commission to respond to the auditors’ report on the EU accounts showing widespread fraud and misuse of funds resulting in the resignation of the Commission as a whole.

The Natural Law Party would therefore take all necessary measures as soon as possible to make the administration of the European Union efficient and proficient in serving the peoples of Europe.

The Natural Law Party is particularly well placed to achieve this objective since its scientifically proven policies will reduce and eventually eliminate the problems that occupy so much time and attention of the EU administration – failure and problems in all areas of the economy, agriculture, law enforcement, immigration etc.