Phrase of the day – “What pulled Europe together was not coal and steel but fear of the Soviet Union.” Aviv Kochavi, director of Israeli military intelligence.
As Soviet Union was gone, the fear face is not a driving force behind Europe countries any more, how EU and Euro could unite European together?
A good example is British retreats into isolationism. As the old headline had it "Fog in channel; continent cut off".
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