Can The EU Survive As A Prison? Who Has The Keys?
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
In the wake of Brexit, the EU and German Chancellor Angela Merkel responded to the UK with spite and vengeance.
Merkel insists that if the UK pursues a Norway-style solution, it will have to accept the EU’s migration rules along with it.
Ironically, had the EU’s migration rules been more sensible, the UK would not have left in the first place.
Following a close election in which there were voting irregularities, Austria’s Constitutional Court Orders Rerun of Presidential Election.
Citing serious irregularities in the counting of postal votes, Austria’s constitutional court issued an unprecedented rule mandating a rerun of the presidential election in which Green party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly beat Freedom Party and anti-immigration candidate Norbert Hofer
Hofer was ahead before postal votes were counted. Perhaps he wins the second chance election.
Hungary Announces Referendum on Migration
Hungary is so fed up with EU’s refugee polices that it announced an October Referendum on EU Migrant Plan.
“Is it the goal of European policy to stop migrants at the borders, to keep processes under control, to conduct procedures outside our borders and to then decide on admitting certain individuals? Is it our goal to let them in and to redistribute them later?” Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels last month.
Four Countries Fed Up With EU
Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic issued a joint statement “The genuine concerns of our citizens need to be better reflected. National parliaments have to be heard.“
Poland’s deputy prime minister Mateusz Morawieck said “The British voice was the voice of reason.”
For details, please see Four Countries Blame Jean-Claude Juncker for Brexit, Two Seek His Ouster.
The EU Prison
Financial Times writer Martin Wolf asks “Is the best way to preserve the EU bloc to make it a prison, rather than a desirable place of refuge?”
Other than a stray sentence here and there, I seldom agree with Wolf on anything.
This time, he generally gets things correct in his article How Europe Should Respond to Brexit.
The UK is leaving. That has to be the assumption of its EU partners, particularly if free movement of people remains an inviolable principle. So how should the rest of the bloc respond?
The UK’s almost certain departure is a threat to the EU on two dimensions.
First, the UK is a neighbour, a market, a financial centre, a security partner and a link to the wider world. It is in the EU’s interest to achieve a mutually satisfactory relationship, however infuriating the UK must be. This argues for the pragmatic position taken by Alain Juppé, frontrunner in the race for the French centre-right presidential nomination. He even suggests that restrictions on free movement of people should be negotiable. If so, that would surely have obviated Brexit.
Second, Brexit is a precedent. The first country to leave the EU is, inevitably, an example to those that wish to follow suit and a warning to those who oppose it. It is natural for …read more
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