Open borders and globalism is being seriously rethought in Europe right now, especially Italy. The EU might not survive this. Just coincidental with this virus, correct? The EU and the US whacked pretty hard medically and economically.
Globalism gone bust:
Italians burn EU flag,
vow to leave EU over
EU's lousy coronavirus response
American Thinker, by Monica Showalter
Original Article
Now that Italy has recorded its 10,000th coronavirus death, a third of the global total, and nearly a thousand just yesterday, Italians are questioning the value of globalism, and more specifically asking what good its European Union membership does it. Sentiment is soaring for getting out and going it alone. Britain did it, why not Italy? Locals are now burning European Union flags, and Italian politicians are ramping up the talk about getting the heck out of the European Union altogether. I suspected this was going to happen during the Italian balcony singing event, noting that most of the songs sung were classical Italian songs, not global pop hits.
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Will the EU survive coronavirus?
The Week, by Noah Millman
Original Article
Will the European Union be one of the casualties of COVID-19? The worldwide pandemic has dealt a dramatic and obvious blow to the liberal ideas of free trade and freedom of movement that inspired and were inspired by the EU. The openness that made it possible to travel and do business seamlessly across a continent has provided the virus with a cornucopia of vectors for transmission. If the refugee crisis of the mid-2010s put strengthened borders back on the continent's political agenda, the pandemic has made the case for hunkering down nationally as well as individually hard to dispute. |
