Posted on 05/08/2017 7:13:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany heaved a sigh of relief after liberal candidate Emmanuel Macron won France’s presidential election comfortably on Sunday, but the two staunch allies face tough challenges over Europe’s future.
Chancellor Angela Merkel had emphatically thrown her support behind Macron against his far-right anti-EU challenger Marine Le Pen, aware that the very existence of the European Union was at stake in the vote.
Minutes after Macron’s win, her spokesman Steffen Seibert underlined the message, writing on Twitter:
“Congratulations, @EmmanuelMacron. Your victory is a victory for a strong and united Europe and for French-German friendship.”Macron shares Merkel’s commitment to the bloc, which has been deeply shaken by Britain’s decision to quit.
The president-in-waiting, who positions himself as a centrist, has also campaigned on the type of sweeping changes to the French economy that Berlin had long championed and implemented more than a decade ago. …
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One Country.
One Leader.
Now they are free to really put the screws to the UK on BREXIT negotiations in order to try to pressure them into having a second vote (because the left likes to have election after election, vote after vote until they get the result they want, then they stop).
Oh, they don’t want the UK back in. They want this independent-minded sovereign entity to be made into an example to the rest of the member states.
and the Euro is Falling and it can’t get up
Talk about whistling past the graveyard.
“Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt”
The EU is the Fourth Reich.
The European Commission’s top economists warned the politicians in the 1990s that the euro might not survive a crisis, at least in its current form. There is no EU treasury or debt union to back it up. The one-size-fits-all regime of interest rates caters badly to the different needs of Club Med and the German bloc.The euro was designed to be yet another crisis in a long series of crises, so that the “solutions” can be “adopted” for the sake of accumulating centralized power.
The euro fathers did not dispute this. But they saw EMU as an instrument to force the pace of political union. They welcomed the idea of a “beneficial crisis”. As ex-Commission chief Romano Prodi remarked, it would allow Brussels to break taboos and accelerate the move to a full-fledged EU economic government. …
— Daily Telegraph, 10/01/2008
“Europe will be forged in crises and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.”
— Jean Monnet, 1978
Frau Merkel had best not rest on her abundant laurels too comfortably
Pull our troops from Europe.
France has never, in its long history, been on the side of freedom. From Monarchy to tyrants to socialism and EU fascism. We will not go back to save them, and they are too far gone to save themselves. I can only hope that Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and maybe even Russia will someday swoop in to restore Europe the way that Spain reconquered its territory over many centuries. Many cathedrals will have been destroyed or turned into mosques by then, many treasures blown up. I weep for western civilization in the hands of such idiots.
So the EU can have the offensive army it craves?
If anything, our troops ought to take these leftists over there out of power.
The EU doesn’t create crises for no reason. The 2008 meltdown (which the ECB precipitated by interest rate manipulation, and which our Fed was very much exposed to) gave them unprecedented control over national economies. This current one will result in unprecedented control over national security of member states, i.e. once they allow it to get so bad as to induce demand for that EU military and unified police force.
And yet, I notice that the Euro (Currency) is sinking today. EUO, Proshares Ultra short Euro ETF, is up 1.31% as I type this. I would have thought the opposite with a Macron win.
You ARE right, the EU is our one of our biggest enemies. Keep your enemies closer, right. .
How many older broads can you have a May-December relationship with??
Crikey, to be honest I’d not thought of that. It will certainly be a nasty trap for the population if that is what they are doing.
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