Frank Christian Hansel, a German AfD legislator, writes for American Greatness that the EU is a doomed enterprise. He believes it is based on premises that ignore human nature and cultural differences, is a relic of the Cold War, and should be replaced with regional groupings that make sense to their inhabitants.
He makes a reasonable argument that the EU, as now constituted, is not representative government in any true sense. It is rather of, by, and for bureaucrats responsible only to each other, not answering to any electorate. He concludes.
The time of the Union as we know it is running out. The only question is whether Europe will shape this transition itself—or whether it will be torn apart by the contradictions of its own artificial construction and have its place in the world decided by others.
The alternative is clearer than many care to admit: Either Europe becomes political again—or it remains an apparatus until other powers decide its place in the world.
That sounds prophetic. My one quibble with his column it that he views Russia as a natural part of Europe while ignoring its hegemonic behavior vis-a-vis Ukraine and the Baltic republics. I find AfD is too weak on the role of Russia.
