EU in the Corona-crisis: a New balance of power

Europe would not be Europe if the compromise that the heads of state and government would be in four days and four nights abrangen, not all criticism: there are too many or too few billion to combat the Corona-to be used for crisis; too generous or too stingy will be redistributed; that is, brazen principles for discounts have been sacrificed; and that the protection of the rule of Law appears only in a rubber paragraph, which is, of course, celebrated in some quarters as a “victory”.

But it also has to be said It could have been much worse, anyhow, if you think more about the meaning and Benefits of European integration. A result-free look back in anger-a revelation would have been are: The EU would have been in the deepest crisis of its history due to a disagreement as unable to act. From this Disaster, the mutual Recriminations had followed, they would not have recovered for a long time, if at all. This will also need to the European Parliament consider, when it votes on the resolutions.

in Brussels want to take in the end, none than the one in the story, the crashed with the Insistence on its maximum position, the EU is in the midst of a pandemic in an existential political crisis. Positive turned the means: Even those who are supposedly the “national Pride”, the EU is still too many advantages in that they want to risk their Break.

re-education attempts collided

On the Corona summit, there was, therefore, not (yet) to the big Bang. The cracks, through the EU, to be wider, not longer, however, to be overlooked. In the budgetary and financial policy, different cultures – and the associated re – education collide, as before, attempts to each other. In the Wake of the Eastern enlargement members have because of their history of a more intense concept of Sovereignty and also need as a country such as Germany, the European unification after the war was a free replacement identity.

The willingness of Germany and France as a leadership tandem, the Integration vanishes but only for the members of the Visegrád group. The “Thrifty Four” want to remain “loyal and strong” together to the negotiation results, “which otherwise appeared unthinkable,” as the Austrian Chancellor, said Short. The “balance of power” in the EU, of whom he spoke frankly, have changed in fact, since the German-French Motor that had powered the unification over the decades, stutters and is no longer spewing, because in it the synchronization is.

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