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    Italy could blow up Europe as we know it

    Italy could blow up Europe as we know it

    The 5 Stars are close to forming a coalition government. They want major changes to the EU and even are considering exiting the Union.


    As Italy’s leading vote-getters work through the weekend to hammer out a coalition deal — about time, some might add, two months after the election — the EU and Brussels establishments are in a state of heightened anxiety.

    A government of the 5Stars (anti-establishment, in media shorthand) and the League (far right, ditto) together, or somehow alone, is unprecedented. Never before in any of the six original EU countries, much less one of its leading powers, have parties deeply skeptical toward the EU grabbed the reins of power. If that happens, the consequences for Italy and the EU could be felt for months and years to come.




    But the appetizer has been served. A surprise election outcome that sidelined Italy’s more traditional left and right parties and catapulted this odd couple into the limelight is disrupting European politics in unexpected ways.
    Here’s how Italy may yet blow up the EU as we know it.
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    Good.....let the EU swet.
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    They need to revert back to an economic union.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Italy could blow up Europe as we know it

    The 5 Stars are close to forming a coalition government. They want major changes to the EU and even are considering exiting the Union.




    Read the rest at the link.

    Down with globalism

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    EU seems to be crumbling.

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    The EU destroyed itself when Soros convinced merkel to force open borders and to accept untold numbers of refugees. European Citizens suffered and still suffer for that progressive left folly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Down with globalism
    I am fine with economic globalism; I am not fine with cultural globalization.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    The EU destroyed itself when Soros convinced merkel to force open borders and to accept untold numbers of refugees. European Citizens suffered and still suffer for that progressive left folly.
    One reason why globalism won't work

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    The EU is just political slavery sold as "unity" among Europeans.

    Every ruling class in history has sought further political consolidation as a means of accruing more power and wealth to themselves.

    And after some time, these increasingly consolidated political systems become intolerably corrupt, inefficient, and anti-democratic, which results in popular resistance via secession movements.

    It's a cycle that has been playing itself out for as long as "civilization" has existed.
    Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
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    Italy Sets Course for Left-Right Populist Surge

    And they are not pro-EU.

    Italy is wrapped up these days in the efforts of its two strongest political parties to forge a coalition government. Presumably they will succeed, though whether the resulting civic structure will have any staying power remains an open question. But in terms of the broad political trends in Italy, Europe, and the entire West (including the United States), it doesn’t really matter much. Whatever happens with the emerging Italian government, Italy has set itself upon a new course. It’s the path of populism, fueled by many things but primarily by the West’s immigration crisis.

    William Galston offered an interesting insight into all this the other day in a piece in The New Republic. Galston, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, wasn’t writing about Italian politics but rather about the turn towards populism in Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orban. But he had a broader point. “The global democratic tide,” he wrote, “which began in 1974 with the end of Portugal’s authoritarian regime, crested in 2006, making way for anti-democratic populists. Many Western leaders have yet to come to terms with this new reality, hoping that anti-immigrant sentiment is just a passing phenomenon.”
    Right now it seems to be moving in a populist direction, and many, including Galston, are quick to lament what they consider the “anti-democratic” underside of this populist wave. But people don’t turn away from democracy simply because they get tired of it or bored with it or because they would really rather live under a dictatorship or an overt oligarchy. They turn away from democracy when they feel that the democratic system no longer works for them.

    In that sense the blame for such a turn of events more properly rests with the elites who most vehemently despise populism. If it weren’t for their failed leadership, there wouldn’t be any serious populist wave at all.
    I think the author is confused- he seems to think the EU is a democratic institution. It most certainly is not.
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