Posted on 06/01/2012 9:34:05 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
Earlier this week the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project released a major report entitled ‘European Unity on the Rocks’. Its survey, involving more than 9,000 respondents across eight European Union nations as well as the United States, is the stuff of nightmares for EU officials desperately trying to keep the European project together against the backdrop of the biggest economic crisis in Europe since the 1930s.
In the words of the report’s authors the European project “is a major casualty of the ongoing sovereign debt crisis,” with deep-seated disillusionment with the European single currency and the broader process of European integration. As the Pew study shows there is little faith outside of Berlin in the idea of further integration within the European Union:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
The recent economic unpleasantness in the western world may just have the unintended benefit of purging our respective countries of the cancer of socialism. Like cutting off the blood supply to a tumor.
You may be right. Greece is really going down the tubes and Spain looks as if it will follow shortly after.
If we can keep them from a civil war it could be good for the long term.
After the tumor has devoured the patient.
I am so glad Mrs. Thatcher is still alive to know she has been proven 100% correct - again!
Also, sometimes there is zero chance of heading off a war.
Nothing can stop the coming European meltdown.
And
What will emerge will be better than what they have now. The sooner the collapse the less bloody it may be...not that there is any chance of it not being bloody given that it is Europe and they always do the murderous purge thing.
A better use of one’s effort would be to.get one’s loved ones out of there before it blows.
Europe has fractured itself from within, with both the EU and their multicultural/immigration policies.
If things fall apart economically the subsequent chaos could be unlike anything we’ve ever witnessed before.
Thanks LucianOfSamasota.
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