Europe’s only hope: the Federation Light
European Council on Foreign Relations
30 Settembre 2008
The political history of the EU has been an endless chain of failures and humiliations: the war in Yugoslavia, which resulted in 200,000 lives lost due to the EU's indecisiveness and reluctance to use military pressure on the combatants; the farce of the boycott of Austria in which EU heads of government decided to isolate Austria economically and politically after the lawful and constitutional parliamentary election that led to a new coalition government that included the Freedom Party; and during the Danish cartoon crisis, the EU showed a total lack of democratic solidarity and moral determination. Considering that the EU is a resource-rich society of more than 400 million people, it is discouraging to see the EU demonstrate a paralysis and complete lack of responsibility in relation to all the geopolitical hot spots: the Iraq wars, the battle against terror, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the key issue these days of Russia's future position in the European and global power grid.…
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