Europe

Well its over. No President Blair. The dinner came and went in short order. Choices were made swiftly. Everyone went home smiling. Except for the Big Europe Federalists, upset that this unknown duo would cut no dash upon the world stage.

Yes there are those who smirk. Herman Van what? Baroness who? But as already discussed on this blog, the E U is a project in hand. To some extent it can be made, but to a greater extent it must evolve. The Americans tried to rush it and went headlong into civil war, before a durable United States emerged. During Europe’s period of evolution competent administrators/concensus builders/chairpersons is what is needed. This is what we now have. It not the time for the strutting or the motorcades.

Meanwhile of those in our country who scoff at the whole thing, one can never stop reminding them of the present stability among the European nations hitherto unknown, certainly not since the Romans. One can also note that the Eurozone did not fall into so deep a recession, have such a deep financial crisis or end up with such a high national debt mountain as we, the clever ones as we see it, have done. Also all the major countries are now out of recession. We struggle forward into a period of unprecedented cuts in public spending, which will cause us to limp further behind many of the leading economies across the channel.

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