{"id":12563,"date":"2020-08-14T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:14:02","slug":"strategika-issue-65-the-status-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-65-the-status-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue #65: The Status of the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The State of This Union is (Remarkably) Strong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please read a new essay by my colleague, Ralph Peters\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, I was a guest commentator on a business-news show whose host was surprisingly literate. We covered global affairs and shared useful exchanges. But this well-schooled, worldly man had a massive blind spot he shared with a significant number of conservatives: He detested the European Union (EU) obsessively and leapt on every shred of negative data from Brussels as proof that the EU was, finally, this time, at last, truly and belatedly doomed.
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The Status of the EU: A Frustrated Empire Built on the Wrong Assumption<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please read a new essay by my colleague, Jakub Grygiel\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Preamble to the 1957 Treaty of Rome stated, the purpose of the then European Economic Community was to \u201clay the foundations of an ever-closer union\u201d among Europeans. This phrase became interpreted as a call for a progressively tighter political merger of the member states, with the European Union as the latest embodiment of this purpose. The problem with this progressive vision, however, is twofold: first, it is never fully achieved as the final objective remains always on the horizon and, second, it is grounded in the belief that a common market can create a unified polity.\u00a0
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The Moribund EU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please read a new essay by my colleagues, Andrew Roberts\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the point of the European Union? Only a few years ago such a question, especially coming from a British Brexiteer such as me, might have been written off as simply provocative rudeness from an ideological foe. Today, however, in the light of the EU\u2019s incapacity to meet the strategic challenges posed by China\u2019s aggressive foreign policy, the health challenges posed by COVID-19, the economic challenges caused by the global lockdown, and the budgetary challenges posed by Britain (its second-largest net contributor) leaving, it is legitimate to ask what the EU is really for at this stage of the 21st century.
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