Thursday, December 20, 2018

The European Union's Great Crackup

In mid-2017, the European Union seemed ascendant, led by the young visionary Emmanuel Macron, the president of France.

If prosperous German burghers would take on the rest of the continent's debts, the so-called European Project, envisioning something akin to a United States of Europe, would be on the move once again.

In 1951, six "Old Europe" nations established the European Coal and Steel Community, freeing the markets in those industries.

The European Union arrived in 1993, courtesy of the Maastricht Treaty.

That's left Merkel without the political credibility to join a campaign to expand the EU. As karma enveloped European politics, Emmanuel Macron was brought low.

Without Berlin, there is no chance of a European finance minister, as he's proposed.

European peoples still benefit from continental cooperation, but they appear to recognize that creating a powerful bureaucratic behemoth like America's national government would be to replicate a failed model.


https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-european-unions-great-crackup/

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