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Emmanuel Macron: all European nationalists are hidden Brexiteers
An action shot of Emmanuel Macron accompanying his Economist interview. Credit: Ed Alcock
Happening today beneath the surface
An action shot of Emmanuel Macron accompanying his Economist interview. Credit: Ed Alcock
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SubscribeCrowd funding has raised $400k for those frat boys to have a party. It will be a doozy.
Man…I may be older but I would REALLY love to have an invite to THAT party.
If you entrust the keys to people who think like they do, there is no reason why Europe should become a great power.
I seem to recall that the last time Europeans were great powers was when the whole shebang was being run by people who would make Boris Johnson look like a doctrinaire Eurocrat. Then y’all screwed the pooch and threw it all away; now you want it back, only you don’t want to admit you want it back and you don’t want to put in the hard work of reconquering the rest of the world. Please do not be surprised if I am somewhat less than sympathetic to your aspirations, Micron.
A man who sleeps with his gran cannot be taken seriously. It is just too much gay Paris.
There’s nothing hidden about them, you federast buffoon.
Not all Democrats hate the flag, but everyone who hates the flag is a Democrat.
That’s an insult to many fine flag-haters.
Anyone who desires for Europe to become a great power should elect leaders who show more dignity than a fluffer, when dealing with the US foreign policy establishment.
And yet the most pertinent question in relation to the Macron interview is…is anyone really listening anymore?
There are actually at least three good reasons why the EU won’t become a great power. They are these:
The Euro which bound wildly disparate economies together without the political structures, let alone will, to do anything significant about the problems this would cause for the periphery.The baked-in Neoliberalism of the Lisbon Treaty with all the capital FoM & deficit rules therein. The fact that the enlargement that took place around the same time Lisbon was agreed along with the various unanimity clauses of Article 48 make any reform of this impossible. Of and much of the EU’s political class are quite happy with US vassalage. Ours certainly are.
Well no shit, Pierre. People in EU countries have been seeing what a crock the whole thing is for a long time now. May their number increase.