Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2019-03-08.
Il Wall Street Journal è lapidario nella constatazione dei fatti.
«the European Commission cut the 2019 eurozone growth forecast from an already anemic 1.9% to 1.3%. Economic output in the eurozone was lower in 2017 than it was in 2009; over that same period, gross domestic product grew 139% in China, 96% in India, and 34% in the U.S.».
La colpa di un simile disastro è da imputarsi in toto all’attuale dirigenza.
Mr Hollande, Mr Macron, Frau Merkel, Mr Renzi, Mr Gentiloni, Herr Rutte come capi di stato, Mr Juncker, Mr Tusk, Mr Oettinger, Mr Moscovici come eurocrati.
Sono dei falliti che hanno trascinato l’Europa al fallimento.
Ma il Wall Street Journal è stato ancora con la mano leggera.
Se invece del 2009 avesse optato per il 2008, i dati sarebbero stati ben peggiori.
Nel 2008 il pil dell’eurozona era 14,113.094 miliardi Usd, ed a fine 2017 era 12,589.880 miliardi.
Similmente, il pil procapite è crollato da 42,770 Usd a 36,670 Usd.
Riassumendo: il pil è sceso di 1,523.21 miliardi Usd ed il pil procapite di 6,100 Usd.
Tutto il mondo ha progredito tranne che l’eurozona, che invece è regredita.
Ripetiamo solo per chiarezza: la colpa di un simile disastro è da imputarsi in toto all’attuale dirigenza. Scomparire sarà l’unica cosa decente che abbiano fatto.
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«decline of Europe as a force in world affairs»
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«The Continent’s Grand Unity Project Is Failing»
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«As its economy lags behind, Europe is becoming more divided politically»
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«A recent report from the European Council on Foreign Relations projects that anti-EU parties from the right and left are on course to control enough seats in the near European Parliament that they will be able to disrupt the EU and weaken it further»
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«two factors contributed to the continent’s geopolitical decline in the 20th century»
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«One was inevitable the wealth gap between Europe and the rest of the world necessarily narrowed»
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«The second factor in Europe’s decline was internal division and nationalistic animosity»
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«The Euro was both an economic and political failure; and, diplomatic unity remains a distant dream»
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«China takes Japan and India more seriously than it takes the EU»
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«Leaders in France and Germany remain firmly committed to the European project, but with Britain on the brink of secession, Italy and Poland mutinous, and Hungary left defiant, the outlook is dimming»
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«forced harmonization is engendering: distrust, resentment, ridicule, contempt and even hatred, amongst and between the people’s of the European continent»
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«We have an elitist, bureaucratic, corrupt, authoritarian, repressive institution and leadership on one side and, a demoralized, lost generation of youth who see an “unaccountable, undemocratic, illegitimate and ultimately repressive super-state” that is digging Europe and themselves into an even deeper hole»
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«A country and its citizens cannot subordinate its sovereignty to an unaccountable, sclerotic, bloated bureaucratic entity in Brussels»
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«That is why Brexit passed; and, a vibrant, continent-wide nationalist movement took hold»
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«The demise of the EU and the Euro as currently conceived; and it is only a matter of when, not if»
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È veramente molto difficile non essere di accordo con il Wall Street Journal quando dice:
«A country and its citizens cannot subordinate its sovereignty to an unaccountable, sclerotic, bloated bureaucratic entity in Brussels»