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Ex-IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Believes Brexit Will Benefit Everyone
EUROACTIV ^ | Fabien Cazenave

Posted on 01/18/2020 4:00:55 PM PST by nickcarraway

The EU will be better off without the UK, and the UK will be better off without the EU, according to IMF’s former chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a controversial figure who has been involved in several financial and sexual scandals. EURACTIV’s partner Ouest-France reports.

The former IMF chief and a controversial figure in French politics, Strauss-Kahn (DSK), considers himself a Brexiteer.

This is what he told the newspaper Journal de Dimanche at the 12th World Policy Conference in Marrakesh, which took place on Saturday (12 October).

During the conference, Strauss-Kahn spoke highly of the UK’s withdrawal agreement with the EU, widely known as Brexit. He found it “very good that the English are going their way”.

“Much of the difficulty of building Europe over the past forty years is linked to our British friends,” he said.

The Brits “never wanted to play the game,” he added.

Strengthening a political Europe

What he wants is not the end of the EU as he wants it, but rather the strengthening of its political integration. The IMF’s former managing director is more concerned about Europe’s place in the world.

And according to him, the continent is getting weaker and weaker.

“The great idea behind Europe, when it was established, was precisely to become, through its union, one of the players in this multipolar world,” he said.

“What I see today makes me a little desperate, especially as I have devoted a large part of my life to this work. I fear that Europe today is moving into the second division,” he added.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitluk; eu
Did not expect this.
1 posted on 01/18/2020 4:00:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

other countries want to leave.

it is coming. The new German Reich will fall.


2 posted on 01/18/2020 4:03:59 PM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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With Brexit Looming, Experts Worry Women May Be Hit Hardest
New York Times ^ | Jan. 17, 2020 | Alisha Haridasani Gupta
Posted on 1/18/2020, 3:54:42 PM by nickcarraway

“The E.U. has been a very positive actor in the development of gender equality policies in the U.K.” — Roberta Guerrina, a professor and researcher at Bristol University

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


3 posted on 01/18/2020 4:09:06 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over the right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: nickcarraway

So does Megxit.
Heck..who wouldn’t want a 27 million dollar waterfront home instead of an old dusty home called Frogmore in a flight path


4 posted on 01/18/2020 4:13:52 PM PST by RummyChick
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[[The great idea behind Europe, when it was established, was precisely to become, through its union, one of the players in this multipolar world,” he said.]]

That’s so Obama.


5 posted on 01/18/2020 5:15:38 PM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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