The
end of the EU and the Balkans as China’s foothold in Europe grows...
Though the end of the European Union
is inevitable, the proponents of a further integrated or federal
superstate are busy making a last effort to achieve their goal.
The
opposition against the project is mounting with every day. Europe is suffering
from economic stagnation, and is facing a demographic calamity.
The
pro-European establishment’s last hope was the newly-elected French President
Emanuel Macron who was to revive the economy and integrate the European Union
under French leadership. Gefira was of the opinion that all these expectations were
misplaced. The once great nation is broken beyond repair. France’s problems are
much worse than those of Italy. Though Italy has a higher debt-to-GDP ratio
than France, France has a larger budget deficit, and the difference is that
while Italy has a trade surplus France has a trade deficit, so the country
cannot pay for its imports.
While
the Italian “populist” Mateo Salvini is earning the nation’s respect, Emmanuel
Macron’s popularity is at a historic low. All of France is
engulfed by riots, civil unrest and looting. In city after city, village after
village, protesters have been clashing with the police for weeks now while
President Macron has nothing to offer to appease them, unless he violates the
budget deficit boundary of 3%.
Like the
Soviet Union once was, France is a sizeable social-multicultural experiment,
and like the empty shops in communist countries, the demographic changes
in France are visible in every section of the society, but nobody dares to name
them. Once the whole world saw that the French team playing at
the FIFA World Cup was made up of almost exclusively Africans, and even on
Twitter Africans boasted about it. Yet, the French establishment insisted that
those Africans were genuinely French. Dissenters were branded as racists or
Nazis.
Academia
as well as the political and business establishment deny what is clear to see
for all. The French society has lost its economic strength and its
spirit. The country was once known for its first high-speed-trains (TGV) and
Concorde, but now it is notorious for social dystopia and Islamist attacks.
To
prove that they are right, the French and European elites will push the
multicultural society even further by signing the Global Compact for Safe,
Orderly and Regular Migration. Also the report entitled: “Replacement Migration: Is it a
solution for an ageing population” is the United Nations’ comprehensive plan
for replacing the European population.
The
Fifth Republic has come to an end, and we do not expect President Macron will
finish his term. France’s socio-economic collapse will drag the European Union
into the abyss.
Now
that the heart of Europe is ungovernable, its peripheries will not fare any
better.
The
multicultural and multireligious Bosnia is not sustainable. The borders in the
region will be redrawn again, which will come with a price. A war between Muslims and
Christians in the Balkans will reverberate in the suburbs of Paris, Amsterdam
and Berlin because of the Muslim large minorities there. The European
establishment has allowed Islam to grow in Europe, and, strange enough, they
believed that European Muslims would feel grateful for such generosity.
From
the point of view of non-European powers the Balkans are a bridgehead worth
fighting for. In the nineteenth century it was the Europeans who were
expanding into China, now it is the Chinese who are trying to gain a foothold
in Europe. Chinese investments and influence are growing in the Balkans. For
centuries this part of Europe has been the battlefield between (Orthodox and
Catholic) Christianity on the other hand and Islam on the other. Now a new
global player has emerged in the region: China. For many Europeans, this part
of Europe seems of little importance, but we think that ignoring the Balkans is
going to be a fatal error. The conflicts there are far from being solved
and the West through its ignorance of the intricacies of the Balkans’ history
is stoking the fire by the solutions it implements there.