The EU could be gone in four years: A revolutionary eruption is coming - Brussels Signal

The EU could be gone in four years: A revolutionary eruption is coming - Brussels Signal

In 1988, if you had told anyone that the Soviet Union would cease to exist just four years later, you would have been dismissed as a crank. The institutions looked solid, the bureaucracy entrenched, and the power absolute. Yet by 1992, it was history.

Today, European politicians in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris suffer from the same dangerous optimism...

• But looking at the trajectory of the European Union, I believe we are closer to a revolutionary moment than the elites dare to imagine...

If you want to understand Europe’s current predicament, look instead to France in 1788 or Russia in 1917...
By overextending ourselves financially and militarily for a conflict we cannot sustain, European governments are delegitimising themselves at home. 

• You cannot demand that your citizens sacrifice their living standards for a war in the Donbas when they are worried about the cost of heating their homes.
• This brings us to the second pillar of Europe’s decline: The Soviet-style prioritisation of ideology over economic reality. Nowhere is this clearer than in our energy policy...