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This is a thoughtful and provocative article by Wolfgang Kowalsky published in Social Europe. He argues that sleepwalking towards the end of the European Union as we know it has begun and questions whether there’s still anybody, anywhere around to stop it.
Source: Sleepwalking Towards Frexit
Once again, it’s important to look for the bias and possible false news, focusing on the evidence. Wolfgang Kowalsky is a policy adviser working in the trade union movement in Brussels.
What Kowalsky fails to address is the incredibly poor standing of the socialists in France after the current disastrous presidency.
But Kowalsky has a point. To whom will the white working-class turn, disenchanted with the liberal elite in France? Yes, the logical answer is Le Pen. And if we assume a Le Pen presidency, Frexit will surely follow?
Of course, all of this will have a profound impact on the evolving Brexit.
Thoughts?
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Dr Alf is probably right to worry about Frexit, although I see as more likely a split in the EU between the countries of Northern Europe, centred on Germany, and those of Southern Europe centred on France.
The EU as now constituted has reached a size which renders it unwieldy, ponderous in its decision-making and completely unable to move at a pace commensurate with the circumstances which it faces.
Brexit happened because those of us who are old enough to remember, compared the promises made in 1975 with what was actually delivered, and saw that for everyone beyond Germany, the promises were not delivered.
Effectively, we were given a new “Greater Germany” and open and unfettered borders.
The UK for the past 150 years has suffered from low worker productivity and bosses overpaying themselves and these two issues are still not being addressed.
Many C1s,C2s,Ds and Es drawn from the old unionised and craft based industries and those displaced by automation still believe that they should have been the inheritors of the victors after World War II but have found themselves marginalised, the same is true of France.
This great “unwashed mass” could have been placated had the EU at least attempted to honestly address the questions about worker productivity, executive pay and the need for competitiveness.
These issues have not been addressed in France either, so the effect is that with the unnecessary influx of Syrian refugees and additional economic migrants caused my Chancellor Merkel and a Western Europe rather too keen to impose quotas on the indigenous populations, a tinderbox has been created.
It is most unlikely that the present crop of EU leaders and the French elite will see the necessity to tackle these issues because they are too remote, too out of touch and too entranced with their own deliberations at Bilderberg meetings where they blithely imagine a world of AI and robotics with 50% to 75% of ordinary people as jobless serfs with short lifespans.
Someone sensible needs to take a grip in France and the rest of Europe and start addressing these issues and the long overdue reform of the EU in its present and future slimmed down form of a new European Northern League and another for the South.