It should have stayed focused on freer trade and freedom of movement and joint defense. The Euro was another mistake until greater economic integration was achieved.
Coming over from your 1/5/25 post on the 2025 election prospects:
this was helpful in answering my question there, but of course none of us can truly guess the future.
On the multiple currency item, is another alternative to separate the Euro into a northern and a southern group of countries, as they seem to have different attitudes about fiscal responsibility, paying their taxes, possibly even attitudes toward commecial activities, etc.
I do struggle to understand just how the Greens viewpoint became so dominant. While I was supportive of the 1970 Earth Day, took a couple of solar energy classes in grad school, and continued to watch for advances in solar efficiency and wind generation innovations, eventually real experience and deeper analysis has shown the renewables energy cost - benefit calc is just not there. To have given up on existing and planned nuclear power in favor of these alternatives (and in the higly engineering oriented countries of Germany and UK, too!) is just hard to fathom.
Once again, I suppose indoctrination, ideology, and religion equivalence took over? Add a lust for power and here we are. A good example of a bad example. And a demonstration of just how resiliant but still somewhat fragile our US federal constitutional order really is.
I think the EU is going to have to undergo a massive reform to survive. Between economic stagnation, declining fertility, extremely expensive energy, the security threat from Russia, and extremely controversial immigration, the current path is not sustainable.
I really hope that Europe comes out Ok, but I am not optimistic.
It should have stayed focused on freer trade and freedom of movement and joint defense. The Euro was another mistake until greater economic integration was achieved.
Thanks for the comment.
Yes, the EU is an example of a good idea that has gotten pushed to such an extreme that it became a bad idea.
Coming over from your 1/5/25 post on the 2025 election prospects:
this was helpful in answering my question there, but of course none of us can truly guess the future.
On the multiple currency item, is another alternative to separate the Euro into a northern and a southern group of countries, as they seem to have different attitudes about fiscal responsibility, paying their taxes, possibly even attitudes toward commecial activities, etc.
I do struggle to understand just how the Greens viewpoint became so dominant. While I was supportive of the 1970 Earth Day, took a couple of solar energy classes in grad school, and continued to watch for advances in solar efficiency and wind generation innovations, eventually real experience and deeper analysis has shown the renewables energy cost - benefit calc is just not there. To have given up on existing and planned nuclear power in favor of these alternatives (and in the higly engineering oriented countries of Germany and UK, too!) is just hard to fathom.
Once again, I suppose indoctrination, ideology, and religion equivalence took over? Add a lust for power and here we are. A good example of a bad example. And a demonstration of just how resiliant but still somewhat fragile our US federal constitutional order really is.
Perhaps current events will culminate into the European union being on the wrong side of history?
Thanks for the comment.
I think the EU is going to have to undergo a massive reform to survive. Between economic stagnation, declining fertility, extremely expensive energy, the security threat from Russia, and extremely controversial immigration, the current path is not sustainable.
I really hope that Europe comes out Ok, but I am not optimistic.