The EU in Retrograde Motion
The EU is being steadily defeated by the very diversity it tries to unite. The number of factors that tend to rend such a union apart far exceeds the payoffs for joining. I would cite the following as a beginning set of factors pushing them apart:
Individual cultures.
Individual political views.
Individual social views.
Individual economic views.
Individual resources.
individual industrial capabilities.
Individual security views.
Individual world views.
Individual religious views.
Individual reactions to growing Muslim power within each nation.
Individual reactions to the looming inability of their governments to afford the social benefits the people are promised.
Individual reactions to being ruled centrally from Brussels.
Nationalism, and reaction to yet another layer of government over them.
Historical distrust.
That seems to me to be enough to derail the EU constitution, and three governments and their peoples have confirmed this now: France, Holland, and the UK (postponing their referendum).
# posted by Mannning @ 5:02 PM
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