Posted on 12/06/2016 2:26:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
PARIS — For Europe, 2016 has brought a series of political shocks: near-record numbers of immigrants arriving from the Middle East and Africa; a vote by Britain to leave the European Union and renewed threats by Russia to meddle on the continent.
But 2017 could be even bumpier. There will be at least three elections in Europe next year: in Germany, France and the Netherlands for sure, and now perhaps in Italy, too. Just about everywhere, political establishments are being blamed for tepid growth, for too few jobs and for favoring global financial markets over the common citizen.
The latest indicator of popular discontent was Italy’s referendum on Sunday, when voters rejected constitutional changes proposed by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. That result was a stinging blow to Mr. Renzi, who said he would resign.
Coming after Britain’s vote this year to leave the European Union, the Italian outcome was taken as yet another rebuke to decades of efforts to forge a closer union of the bloc’s 28 countries. And it raised new doubts about whether that union would hold in the years ahead.
“This is a crisis that strikes at the absolute core of the European Union in a way even ‘Brexit’ does not,” said Mujtaba Rahman, the managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group, a risk consultancy.
“The U.K. was always one foot in and one foot out,” he said. “Italy is a founding member state, fully integrated into the union’s political and economic structure. This is existential for the E.U.”
The Italian electorate rejected a constitutional overhaul that, among other changes, would have increased the power of the prime minister by reducing the number of senators and decreasing their power.
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political establishments are being blamed for tepid growth, for too few jobs and for favoring global financial markets over the common citizen.
Sort of, They favor and have been working towards a One World Government since the League of Nations was created. The only way to achieve that goal is to Destroy All Nations first, Massive Immigration,Poverty,Constant Currency Devaluation....
The peasants are just rising up is all, and it’s about time.
One can only hope...
And every culture would have to be destroyed, as well. Not that every culture would be missed, but to reduce humanity to monotonous sameness, no differences anywhere on the planet. Who wants to live in a homogenous world?
Who wants to live in a homogenous world?
Tyrants! So their Power can not be challenged, think Diversity, Divide and Conquer.
Oh noes....EU concern trolls are concerned
No where in this article do they mention Immigration or Culture.
Who wants to live in a homogenous world?
It is another leftist illusion, part of their DNA. They think everyone is the same all over the world.
It is a basic assumption of “progressives” that everyone is just clay, waiting to be molded into the place that progressives know they should fit.
Who wouldn’t want their nations run over by violent savages?
Make Europe Great Again...veto the EU...
I do so loathe the media.
True Survivor
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ES9vRfs2rbA
Dominoes falling
Riot in the streets
Baby, this time there’s no retreat, there’s no surrender.
A devil is rising
A shadow from the past
Feeding the flames with fire on the edge of fury.
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