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qualify for it.
There is the third school of thought, calling for a more
realisc and less visionary and less idealisc role of co
– habitaon of the European Union with the naonal
member States. The principle of subsidiarity should be
emphasised more than before. This implies: If there are
doubts, whether a maer should be regulated centrally
by Brussels, or in a decentralized way by the naonal
states, then the laer should be applied, and not the
first. The boom line would be a more humble Brussels,
and a less dictatorial Brussels.
The third school of thought also calls, for that the
member states are abiding to the treaes and contracts
they have signed before, and that they do not disregard
and breach the treaes and contracts again and again,
which they have signed before.
One example for this being, in the context with the
creaon of the Euro, the pact for stability and growth,
and the Maastricht criteria, which to repeatedly break is
commonplace by the European member states, which
undermines the credibility of the European Union as
a whole. Over 150 mes the stability and growth pact
has been violated. And the punishments, put in place by
such pact for cases of breaching it, have consistently not
been applied, with one only exempon: Hungary.
As an example, since 2009 France is having an excessive
annual government deficit, exceeding the 3 % of
GDP Maastricht criteria. Again and again, sancons
mandated by the treaes, have not been applied by the
European Union. The reason for this, lately been given
by European Union Commission President Juncker, was:
Quote: Because it is France. Unquote.
Regaining credibility for its treaes, regulaons,
promises, is key for the European Union, beyond any
consequences of the Brexit.
As to NATO, the North Atlanc Treaty Organisaon,
this will not be impacted by the Brexit. Britain and the
other European member states of NATO will all remain
members of NATO. For all of them NATO remains the
backbone of their security. No dispute on this is being
voiced, fortunately and reasonably.
Brexit: Cultural Consequences
In cultural terms Britain is and remains a part of the
European culture.
Such culture encompassing: commitment to peace,
democracy, freedom, liberalism, chrisanity, freedom
for other religions, human rights, no death penalty, rule
of the law, protecon of property, freedom of the press,
freedom of opinion and speech, freedom of travel,
division of public power into execuve power, legislave
power, judicave power, to name a list of many but not
all important ones.
The European policians, as well as naonal policians
keep telling their cizens, that the European Union is
more than an economic Union, more than a common
internal market, more than the uniform currency, the
Euro, and more than a Union, which has maintained
peace among its members, since the incepon of the
Union a
!er World War II.
They keep saying, that The European Union is, first and
foremost, a Union of Common Values.
I have no doubt, that a!er the Brexit, Britainwill connue
to share such Common Values with the remainder of
the European Union member countries sharing them as
well.
But significant, severe excepons have become visible:
The most pressing excepon presently is the subject of
le"ng refugees, and/ or non refugee migraon come
into the Member States of the European Union: Over
a million refugees have streamed into Europe in the
last 12 months. Only 6 countries have taken refugees,
the other 22 Member Countries of the European Union
have taken none. This is not a Union of Common Values.
The other big excepon presently is the subject of how
to run a free market economy successfully in mes of
globalizaon. The Ones are calling for structural reforms
of the naonal economies including labour and social
reforms, and containing excessive government debt and
excessive non government debt. The Others are blaming
this as being painful austerity and call, in spite of many
member states being over-indebted, for massive public
expansion programs being even more financed by
government debt and being prinng press financed.
This is not a Union of Common Values.
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