I noticed that late last year (yes, I don’t always pick up
on things right away), Olaf Scholz, German Finance Minister suggested that
France give its UN Security Council seat to the EU…..a suggestion at which
France quickly hooted. https://www.ft.com/content/84fb634a-f326-11e8-9623-d7f9881e729f
The French response underlines what I have written here
before: Europeans are nationals of their own nations. They typically do not see
themselves foremost as European. It would be very hard to find anyone willing
to die for the EU so far as I can tell, but I expect many Frenchmen would be
willing to die for France and man Germans for Germany. The EU is too artificial
of a construct to have much traction with people’s loyalties, and for that
reason, I expect it is doomed.
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