The Collapse of the EU Empire
Everything that made Europe the center of the world is subverted or outright thwarted by the Eurocrats in Brussels.
by Matt Ridley
December 22, 2016
The Italian referendum and close-shave Austrian election are symptoms of a continent that may be teetering on the brink of political disintegration.
It’s just possible that an empire may be collapsing before our eyes, as the Habsburg and Ottoman empires did before it, in or around the same neighborhood.
With the rise of nationalist parties in Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Britain, the possibility that the Brussels union has fomented, rather than suppressed, nationalism can no longer be dismissed.
The Habsburg empire, which also tried to make a whole out of linguistically and culturally diverse parts, and ended in a war sparked by Serbian nationalism, is an unhappy precedent. The European Union may be encouraging precisely what it was founded to avert.
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