The tyre is flat. The EU project has shuddered into crisis. The modernist advance is no more. Whats modern now is the retreat, the longing to get back to the tranquillity of the nation state. Its not just the right-wing parties driving this forward; its almost a consensus. And because the broad undertow of this social mood is entwined with specific problems of the EU, the community project is actually already headed for the rocks. With its announced reintroduction of border controls, Denmark is showing just how its done. And many other member states could probably soon follow suit.
Longings to dismantle the EU are plentiful. In Austria today many want the return of the schilling, which would be immune from the problems in Greece, Portugal and Ireland. Many dream of border controls going back up to put a stop to gangs of burglars, beggars, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers coming into the country. They would approve of no more foreign students taking up seats in overcrowded Austrian universities. They would probably agree unhesitatingly that such a move would mean bringing back restrictions on transit traffic. A majority, we know from surveys, would support reintroducing barriers to our labour markets. And many companies and workers would ultimately not only support but even vehemently insist on import restrictions on all those products that are outcompeting their own domestic products. The dismantling ought to begin.
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> companies and workers would ultimately not only support but even vehemently insist on import restrictions on all those products that are outcompeting their own domestic products
This would of course be a disaster as the extra cost and lower quality of the items would be charged to the consumers of the country. In effect a Marxist style reward for inferiority, with all the inevitable effects that this would lead to.
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Sort of what Detroit did in the 1970s during the gas crisis - tried to have all the Japanese fuel efficient cars kept out because Detroit was still pushing big metal and muscle cars, and refused to make the fuel efficient cars.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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