Javier Solana — A Europe for the World

As the EU aspires to become an international power, the choice is simple: either we Europeans act in unity to confront the tremendous challenges presented by the tumultuous changes now underway in the world order, or we doom ourselves to act as spectators in a world in which we have little or no say. Our prosperity and the viability of our socioeconomic model are at stake. That should convince us that Europe’s states are too small to act globally on their own, and that European integration is the only viable path.

Project Syndicate
A Europe for the World
Javier Solana | former Foreign Minister of Spain, Secretary-General of NATO, and EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, and current President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

Indication that elites of the periphery are willing to destroy the economies of their countries, privatize their national resources, forfeit national sovereignty as well as currency sovereignty, and sell their fellow countrymen into debt servitude to achieve a united Europe? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.