Writing for the Gatestone Institute foreign policy website, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti effectively calls the European Union a “dead man walking.” It seems the CoV has revealed once again just how little solidarity the EU has in practice, when things get difficult.
Apparently the wealthier northern nations of Netherlands and Germany have basically said to Italy and Spain, “we’re not financing solutions to your CoV and illegal immigrant problems” under conditions those southern nations can accept. Solidarity is in short supply.
Instead of “an ever closer union,” current trends suggest Schengen may be history and the EU will devolve back to a more-or-less free trade zone. I wonder what will happen to the vast palaces the EU has built to house its many bureaucrats, and to those minions when their continued employment makes no sense. Perhaps some remnants will persist as aspects of the forlorn League of Nations did for several years after its demise.
It turns out that so long as Germany remains unserious about becoming once again a military power, the EU has little reason for existence beyond a customs union.
