The state of the European Union as the chief reason for political instability
Why the reform of the European Institutions is a prerequisite for re-establishing European order
1. The imperative of European reform is more than a wishful claim of certain countries and divers eurosceptic groups and individuals. It is the stringent conclusion from a realistic analysis of the European Project and its development since the Maastricht Treaty. Put in a nut shell I would say:
The French dominated steering of the then European Community and its deliberate transformation into a Federal Union with enlarged competences and constructivist political ambitions has led to an overload of missions and a widening gap of democratic legitimacy, continuously undermining Europe‘s authority in the world in general and towards the U.S. in particular. (Read more …)