Posted on 12/12/2020 6:50:07 AM PST by dynachrome
I recognize and understand the enormous pressure under which German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been laboring. She has been Germany’s chancellor for 15 years and is now approaching retirement, in September 2021. With French President Emmanuel Macron temporarily distracted by the laïcité issue and other serious security concerns within France, Merkel has become something of the sole main decision-maker for the EU.
I also understand why the German chancellor does not want another country, Hungary, to announce its intention to leave the EU on her watch. That is reportedly what Orbán was preparing to do in recent days, because he cannot afford to have the sheer scale of his regime’s corruption exposed, which the EU’s “rule of law” conditionality for the disbursement of Union funds would invariably have done.
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He owns the PS site.
George Soros
GEORGE SOROS
Writing for PS since 1997
118 Commentaries
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations. A pioneer of the hedge-fund industry, he is the author of many books, including The Alchemy of Finance, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means, and The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival? His most recent book is In Defense of Open Society (Public Affairs, 2019).
The only 2 CATHOLIC countries left in Europe.
“The only 2 CATHOLIC countries left in Europe.”
I think the Czech Republic is also predominantly Catholic.
Oops. I just looked it up. The Czech Republic is predominantly “Undeclared” as to religion, with declared Catholics being only 10.5%. I grew up with several Czechs as neighbors, and they were all Catholic. But, I’m talking about 60 years ago.
Soros is slime.
No,the only *Christian* countries.
Soros (Schwartz) is demonic. The opposite is True of most of what he says...unless he is using reverse psychology
Hussites? Moravians? Bohemia/Czechoslovakia was a battleground during the religious wars of the 16th & 17th centuries.
What is remarkable about this essay is that Soros acknowledges that the political structure of the EU is theater and that power resides in the capitols of the two largest economies and mostly in the largest. Merkel’s watch, in deed!
George is salty. Good. Tot is better.
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