Posted on 11/13/2016 6:33:27 PM PST by lafroste
While America's so-called "establishment", the legacy political system and mainstream media, appear to be melting, and transforming before our eyes into something that has yet to be determined, Europe also appears to be disintegrating in response to the Trump presidential victory: as the FT reports, in a stunning development, Britain and France on Sunday night snubbed a contentious EU emergency meeting to align the bloc’s approach to Donald Trump’s election, exposing rifts in Europe over the US vote.
Hailed by diplomats as a chance to “send a signal of what the EU expects” from Mr Trump, the plan fell into disarray after foreign ministers from the bloc’s two main military powers declined to attend the gathering demanded by Berlin and Brussels.
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Trump's move infuriated members of Europe's fraying core, with Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister, tweeting: “If Trump wanted to look statesmanlike to Europe, receiving Farage was probably the worst thing he could [do].”
As the FT adds, British foreign secretary Boris Johnson dropped out of the Brussels meeting, with officials arguing that it created an air of panic, while French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault opted to stay in Paris to meet the new UN secretary-general. Hungary’s foreign minister boycotted the meeting, labeling the response from some EU leaders as “hysterical”.
Johnson’s refusal to attend will add to an already difficult relationship with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who has told colleagues that he cannot bear to be in the same room as the British foreign secretary.
In short: total chaos.
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LOL!
So some representatives from a few countries declining to attend a ridiculous arm flailing emergency meeting about the proper response to an american election (a meeting the likes of which, to my knowledge, has never happened before), is now considered “chaos”
Why do you think he is that rammed stupid?
The Trump effect
Geez the guy isn’t even president yet and he’s now exposing the rot of the “ EU”
HolyMoly
To the would-be EU hive mind in Strasbourg, defiance and insubordination to central authority are chaos
First these countries refuse to attend meetings
Next they refuse .... ?
Rapid response? So...let me get this straight. The people responsible for making long-term strategic decisions with respect to the European Union were caught unprepared when the U.S. held an election? As if we've never had one before? And inasmuch as there were only two serious candidates, are we to believe that somehow these avatars of advanced strategic thought couldn't come up with a contingency plan in case either one got elected, at some point before five days after the election?
I know why the Brits and the French bailed out. They were afraid it might be contagious.
And the winning just keeps piling on.
I guess we all enrolled in winning 101.
There was a huge pedophile ring exposed [though our press coverage was worthless] in Europe not long ago involving a lot of the elected elite in one country, forget which.
“Worthless” and the American media are now nearly synonymous.
It’s something that Pravda is now more reliable than many, if not most, American newspapers.
Heck, it’s gotten so bad that the National Inquirer (”Minds that need examining want to know.” — Ray Stevens) seems at times more reputable than many of these rags!
And as for broadcast news: meh and feh all at once.
Good post. Fully agree.
Very Interesting...
Translation: Oh crap, we're in trouble!
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