I don't think Elmar Brok will be coming back to Turkey soon. The German member of European Parliament who heads up the apparently important Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament didn't seem to get much of a welcome when he was here earlier in September and hasn't made any headway in convincing Turkey of the importance of the EU.There is no real reason why he would have when, after being an member of European Parliament for 30 years, he can't even convince his own people in Germany of the importance of the EU. A recent study there revealed that most Germans are envious of Britain and its Brexit.The problem with guys like Brok is systemic to the chronic illness that the EU has right now. An unprecedented crisis over accountability and democratic values with EU leaders who consider such notions as "free speech" much as a doctor in West Africa regards Ebola.You would have thought that a senior member of parliament would know a thing or two about such things. But it just doesn't register. Brok just doesn't get freedom, liberty and other such European values. He's an authoritarian who has been made by the EU system and now simply wants to milk it for all its worth, while pulling the drawbridge up after democracy itself got him into the 24-hour party.Prostitute 'scandal'In June I wrote a news article for a U.K. newspaper featuring his comments he made to me in a recorded telephone interview. He promptly wrote an email to the editor complaining about the piece and references I had made to a scandal involving prostitutes in the Ukraine, which he firmly denies, claiming the entire matter has been "cleared" with the authorities and the government of that country. Recently, I wrote an opinion article for the Daily Telegraph that mentioned the "scandal" involving the prostitutes and - again - his staff waste valuable time writing long letters of complaint. This time though they go one further and claimed that Brok doesn't stand for an EU federal super state, despite being a senior member of two EU federalist talk shops in Brussels, whose websites clearly state that they want an EU federal super-state.One is even called the Union of European Federalists whose name is a bit of a dead give-away. But no matter.Putting aside from lying to editors of national newspapers for a moment - which is an irony given that he claimed that the Brexit camp were "liars" about immigration and an EU army - it beggars belief that someone so high up in the EU circus doesn't really get the right to express an opinion. An opinion. Brok is simply unable to grasp what free speech after being in the EU now for 30 years - an institution that has successfully stamped out all free speech among its press pack in Brussels through bullying, and installing a system that alienates journalist who want to hold the EU to account, not to mention arresting those like Hans Martin-Tillack who try and expose corruption.Brok is part of an authoritarian elite who are used to spoon-feeding journalists their own propaganda and have a sort of nervous breakdown when journalists express a view that wasn't scripted and emailed to them from what Brussels calls "copy approval." A sort of hissy fit. The German member of European Parliament calls my opinion article "poor journalism" revealing his own ignorance and confusion of either category "journalism" and "opinion."For the euro elite in Brussels, "journalism" is a profession of sycophantic wordsmiths who repeat every word you tell them to write in the style you want the article to be written. Surfs, who take down dictations from their masters, if you like. "Opinion" pieces written by journalists can only be opinions that have already been formed by the euro elite themselves, as only they know the correct opinions about their own work.By definition, an opinion piece, which holds the EU and its officials to account, has to be null and void.Arresting EU journalists in BrusselsDidn't once upon a time Brok and others in Brussels harp on about Turkey's human rights problems and its treatment of journalists? Oh yeah, those days are long gone as firstly no one listened or took them seriously; and secondly Brussels shot itself in the foot talking about how to treat the press when it was, in 2002, throwing journalists on its own turf in jail on trumped up charges from a German magistrate, whilst Neil Kinnock sued others for trying to expose EU corruption.This is part of the dire lack of credibility, which Turkey has with the EU. It's personal. It's about authoritarian buffoons like Brok who Turkish leaders can't take seriously as they in Brussels don't have the faintest idea about fanciful notions of democracy and free speech as they feverishly sweat over letters they bang out every day trying to defame journalists who don't hold the same views as them. It is my opinion, Mr. Brok, that you engaged the services of prostitutes in the Ukraine. You deny the accusations but you have not cleared your name of this. All you have done is get the EU delegation in the Ukraine [read highly paid EU civil servants who are also on the gravy train] to condemn the attack by the feminists group.It is still my OPINION that you were guilty of the accusations. And it is my right to express my OPINION on the matter. And, as much as it is the dream of many EU officials to brain wash its citizens and rule all media, my OPINION is what it is.Two world wars were fought for my right to express my OPINION Mr. Brok and the very foundations of the EU are apparently based on that. How can any country in the world take you seriously when you talk about human rights, when you practice the same doctrine of Nazi Germany when it comes to controlling the media?Brok is a wart on the face of the EU and has contributed to it becoming a Third Reich super-state that wants to control Europe and the minds of its citizens and press. And it's no coincidence that he is German, as Berlin has taken more power within the EU over the years and few now in Brussels bother talking of the problem of the Franco-German axis as there is no longer one. Germany calls the shots.Hitler's GeneralsThe very essence of what is destroying the EU and making it an ever-crumbling organization, which is scrambling to save itself, is Brok. He alone personifies everything that is outdated and unworkable. More and more European countries are calling for a more flexible EU, more modern and in touch with citizens. But it might be too late. The federalists like Brok have a dream to cling onto, which is creating an EU army which will save the EU seconds before the abyss. Like Hitler's generals in the last days of WWII they can't see clearly and believe the allies can be defeated. But the EU's last days are not the Battle of the Bulge; there are no enemy soldiers to be cut down with Sturmgewehrs. But no matter. The EU will invent a war somewhere and EU media giants - paid cash by Brussels - will cover it and run it as objective news from their correspondents. This is the kind of Europe Brok and his friend Martin Schulz dream of, no doubt. A role for the EU with no limits on how far they have to go to manufacture one. If the Germans in 1939 fabricated a fake attack on their soldiers by Polish officers, why couldn't the EU do the same with a German-led EU army? It's not fantasy. Madmen like Brok and Schulz are capable of anything.Note to editor. Apologies for the email you are about to receive from Mr. Brok's office. He doesn't know what an "opinion" piece is. He's from Brussels. They don't do free speech there.* Freelance journalist based in Beirut who works for a number of British titles as well as Deutsche Welle TV