Has the European Union, as we know it, passed its ‘Best - TopicsExpress



          

Has the European Union, as we know it, passed its ‘Best before’- date, now that the UK has (definitely) fallen from grace? Perhaps, it is now the right time to build an ‘EU Next Generation’! Germany, represented by Chancellor Angela Merkel, presented the UK a yellow card with a ‘reddish’ glow for its unilateral, hostile stance towards the EU immigration policy. Maybe it is time to think ahead of a Brexit and build upon the ‘EU Next Generation’. It has been the ‘talk of the town’ lately: the unprecedented speculation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel upon a British exit – a so-called Brexit – from the European Union. The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel (i.e. the mirror) had the scoop for this bombshell, quoting sources around the Chancellor. Still, in spite of the unprecedented impact of a possible Brexit, few people will dare to doubt the truthfulness and correctness of this news item by this authorative German magazine. This unusually straightforward expression of dissatisfaction with the British stance regarding the European Union, coming from the European ‘Leading Lady’, can best be compared with a yellow card during the final of the Champions League football. When such an event happens, the referee is clearly expressing an unambiguous message to one of the players at an extremely important moment. “Cross this line again and you will be sorry about it!” According to Der Spiegel, this yellow card was NOT given for the British ‘whining and jawboning’ with respect to the considerable after-tax of €2.1 billion, that the United Kingdom had to pay to the EU. Chancellor Merkel could probably understand the British frustration about this colossal amount, seemingly coming out of thin air. No, Merkel was infuriated about the translucent British attempt to deploy an ‘immigration quota’ in the United Kingdom for labourers from Eastern Europe. Such a quota would violate one of the foundations, that are the bedrock of the European Union (i.e. ‘free traffic of labourers’) and it would send shockwaves through the whole community of member states; especially towards the populist, right-wing parties all over Europe, that would see this as their ‘Alea iacta est’-moment (i.e. the die is cast).
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:07:35 +0000

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