By Theodore Dalrymple May 1, 2013
If you ask someone who is in favour of "the European project" what that project actually is, he will not reply: "The creation of a large and powerful unitary state without any unnecessary interference from populations that, because of their ignorance and stupidity, see no need for it" - a reply that at least would have the merit of honesty.
No: he will start mumbling about peace and the need to avoid a repetition of World War II, as if, were it not for directives from Brussels about how large bananas must be or what are the permitted scents in soap, Europeans would once again be at each other's throats.
Actually, a forced European unity, conjured from no popular sentiment by a strange combination of bureaucratic mediocrity and gaseous utopianism, is more likely to lead to conflict than to prevent it; and the increasingly wide divergence of the interests of France and Germany is fast recalling the ghosts of the past. The French fear to be dominated; the Germans don't want to be condescended to…..To Read More….
My Take - I posted an article titled, Germany must do more to help its neighbors, on April 28. The article propounded that Germany was responsible for the failure of its neighbors because Germans were good at economics and their neighbors weren’t, so it was Germany’s fault they weren’t doing well. It isn’t their profligate spending mind you…it’s Germany’s economic legerdemain. I made some comments I think worth repeating...with some adjustments.
The article insisted that Germany had to stop being so good to help those who were lousy at economics feel good about themselves. That would make them ‘all better’ and then they would do better….hogwash! The EU is going to cease to exist because these countries are incapable of rational thought when it comes to fiscal management for their nations and they have placed far too much power in the hands of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats with an agenda making insane rules beloved by every anti-capitalist leftist in Europe.
Furthermore, their citizens are so imbued with socialism that they believe they can force their governments to continue heaping benefits on them, even if they don't have the money, forever. I went on to say that what Germany "must" do is to look to their own economy because southern Europe is doomed. I should have added that France is done for also and they need to ignore them as much as possible, but they are completely aware that France, especially under Hollende, is an economic dwarf. One German minister stated that “French industry is increasingly losing its competitiveness. Businesses continue to move overseas, and the profitability of businesses is low,” [he] also criticised France’s increasing labour costs and dwindling investment in research and development, noting that France has the “second-shortest working year” in the European Union, and that its tax load is “the highest within the Eurozone”. He also said that; “France – Europe’s biggest problem child”!
As for a “master” of Europe! There will be no EU soon, the Euro is done and there will be no European economy worth enough to “master”. But, don’t be offended. We’re working as hard a beavers over here in the U.S. to be just as bankrupt as the rest. The world has gone insane!
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