Emmanuel Macron has learnt Machiavelli’s methods, but not the skills Ambrose
Marine Le Pen won the French elections after all. The new government of Michel Barnier has no working majority in parliament.
It survives on her say-so, one bill at a time, until she is ready to dispose of it.
Mr Barnier’s ministers are left with full ownership of the coming austerity. France has the worst structural deficit in the eurozone.
Portugal can borrow for significantly less on the global capital markets.
Michel Houellebecq, France’s best-known novelist, says that this incumbent caste is harder to overthrow than the hereditary nobility of the Ancien Regime.
It is more certain of its righteousness, by virtue of higher education and attainment.
He says the rot set in after the French people voted no to the European constitution in the 2005 referendum, only to see a near identical text slipped through as the Lisbon Treaty.
I agree that this was a watershed event for both France and Europe, the moment when the EU project showed its character.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph 26 September 2024
In 2005, France and the Netherlands voted down the EU constitution; the EU repackaged the constitution as the Lisbon Treaty and carried on merrily.
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-night-of-referendum-as-results-came.html
Logiken i det hela rör sig i federativ riktning... Sch! säger Kohl åt mig när jag tar upp det.
Då bör svenska folket också ha det klart för sig innan vi röstar om medlemskap.
Att komma fem-tio år efteråt och upptäcka att vi plötsligt har gått med i någonting som successivt berövar oss vår nationella bestämmanderätt, det skulle vara att sätta sig i en trettio år lång svekdebatt vad det gäller demokratin.
Det vill jag inte göra.
Göran Persson 1997-10-13, Fichtelius, sid. 391
https://www.nejtillemu.com/konvent2007.htm
If you want to understand what is happening to the European Union’s constitution, the EU flag is a good place to start.
European leaders will agree to delete references to the flag in the constitution.
Everybody knows the flags will keep flying.
The words in the constitution will change. But the substance will remain the same.
EU slams Eurovision for banning its flag from song contest
- Jag brukar föreslå min federalistiska tyske kollega att Tyskland och Frankrike kan väl börja med att bilda en federation så kommer vi efter om det går bra.
Professor Jan Zielonka, Oxford University, 14/12 2006
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/05/eu-slams-eurovision-for-banning-its.html
Tillbaka till den 27 September 2024
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/09/wall-street-och-stockholm-27-september.html
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