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Is Europe Coming To Terms With Its Demise and Irrelevance In The 21st Century?
And what it can do differently to survive and thrive in the age of global competition.
There’s a feeling of deep anxiety across western Europe, these days.
And this isn’t at all restricted to the country which chose to cut to nose to spite its face when it voted to leave the European Union.
Germany’s due to have elections in February and the extreme right is likely to make serious gains and it is no conspiracy to suggest that the impending changes are inextricably linked to the outsourcing of its automobile industry to the United States and elsewhere.
France’s Emmanuel Macron has till tomorrow to appoint a new prime minister to implement his wide ranging reforms and there’s every possibility that the nation of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Satre and Camus may have a far right President in 2027.
And it is also worth pointing out that the faucet of endless supply of uranium and other precious metals from its former colonies in the Sahel has dried up, causing a huge degree of panic from all sides of the French political divide.
Italy, which gave the world fascism, is sleepwalking into the very same problem which pushed the world to the brink of destruction in the 1930s, has produced a crop of…