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Europe has drowned in its own labyrinths of incompetence and even ridicule

Drive on electricity (for which you have no sources), buy expensive gas, wrap yourself in a blanket, heat to 19°, grit your teeth and endure the cold – these profound insights have reduced the famous European politics, whose history is filled with brilliant ruling minds and strategic moves. From brilliance to rust in just a few years. Indeed, ever since the rules on (non)propriety of cucumber curvature, up to the fresh ban on the mother of all tools, the hoe, it has become clear that Europe has drowned in its own labyrinths of foolishness, incompetence, undercapacity, lostness, unfortunately and ridicule.

In the last two and a half years, from the pandemic to the current war, such a conclusion has been quite cemented. The European enfant terrible, autocrat and despot is the only one daring enough to tell the emperor that he is naked – Europe has not only shot itself in the foot, it has shot itself in the lungs and is already suffocating. Brussels must admit that the sanctions have not achieved their goal; moreover, they had the opposite effect. We have been punished even more! With such self-punishment, there is no doubt that we will sink into recession.

Okay, no recession will probably last longer than Croatia’s six years. We will pull through once, someday, probably when the shaping of the new world order, or whatever you want to call this new reshaping of the world, is over. In it, the EU will only be able to languish as a bureaucratic giant and a strategic dwarf. However, regardless of the introductory sentences, and the fact that there are more than 30,000 well-paid bureaucrats working in the Commission alone, despite the sinking of European common sense, we still wonder at the end of the day how the hell we ended up in this position?

Political analyst Žarko Puhovski does have a grain of justification.

– Objectively speaking, the current European leadership is operating under the most difficult conditions. A pile of crises is piling up and these crisis conditions must be taken into account. However, alongside this justification, there is a substantial problem of the European Union, its legitimacy, and even its competencies. Who represents the Union and to what extent, and to what extent do individual member states? Where is the boundary of interests?

On the other hand, we also have a subjective problem. For too long, there has been not the slightest indication of any conception of what the Union wants to be. All this is just a reaction to events, but there is no meaningful concept, from the Covid situation to the current war. Moreover, during the Covid crisis, they showed far more concern for the welfare of big capital than for their own citizens and public health. The messages from Ursula von der Leyen point to such a legitimate conclusion. And then there was a sudden explosion of war conditions. What is particularly concerning is the fact that Europe has not tried for a single second to embark on the path of independent policy – claims Puhovski.

Who and what else is sending messages about the current and future position of Europe can be read in the new issue of the printed and digital Lider.