Re: The Decline of the EU (In Their Own Words)
Originally Posted by
Solasch
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If you remember, it's you and figures like jbr who keep telling the EU is in trouble because the UK left. The report doesn't see any problems arising from brexit.
I liked the report. The article is just one author's interpretation.
Your budget suggests differently. The EU is in chaos because your 70 billion short on your budget. Nobody wants to pay extra and those that can are in fear of having the money taken from them by an unelected bureaucracy through the Green Deal back-door cash grab policy introduced by Van Der Leyen earlier this year. Those that do not have the money are in fear of austerity measures that will make up the shortfall ... you don't see this as the EU being in trouble when every member state is in decline and their second biggest net contributor just walked out the door, with its financial markets, universities, fishing waters, army, navy and air force ?
The UK government has a majority of 80 and a clear position on what it wants. The 27 want different things and I can't think of one of them that has a majority government. You stand no chance of getting anything agreed so guess what ? The EU will make the decisions for you just like they did with Singapore and the trade deal there.
Meanwhile, Japan, Canada, Singapore etc are all reconsidering their trade deals with the EU because one of the major bargaining chips that the EU provided as a bloc (UK financial services) is no longer part of those deals. They will want something else in return to make the deal worth while, or the deals will be off.
There is still no negotiating position for the future trade deal from the EU. Its due in about 2 days for review by the member states. So far, no sign of it ... because they all want different things and they do not want to lose out any more than they have already. The big question is, who gets thrown under the bus ... France, Poland, Netherlands, Denmark ? Can you imagine the disaster and the embarrassment if the EU can't agree a negotiating position and miss their own deadline ?
It certainly won't be Germany, they own you and if they start calling in their debts to pay for this 70 billion Euro black hole then Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy etc will be in a whole load of trouble.
Apart from that, everything is fine isn't it
P.S. This article is not the authors interpretation it is a summary of the findings of the EU Commissions own appointed think-tank.