It doesn't take a survey to tell a person which way the wind
blows when on the street facing a biting gust.
Support for the European Union is falling. Distrust is growing.
Damage is accelerating. Europe is in disarray. “The Union is over!” Well not quite really over.
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| The great reformist of 1517 Martin Luther is honoured in Dresden city centre. Germany leads again a new reformation in changing political and economic destiny for Europe. Image 2013 |
In a few recent short years, half a century of sterling work by
our fore-fathers to create a United Europe is being completely re-assessed. “The
Union is dead!” “Long live the Union!” Great cities are once again committing
to European destiny.
Chancellor Angela Merkel steps in behind a “Keep UK in the EU”
campaign. Her government’s support for the campaign is seen in Berlin as vital
to reshaping the Project beyond its present
form.
Most observers know Europe
will look a different structure by 2017 if not before.
Political leaders have few options to explore the way forward. At the forefront is a northern block led by
Germany and preferred ally the UK. In tandem, and implementing necessary
reforms, France, Italy and Spain should head-up a formidable southern team. The
peripheral will play ball to join either league being relegated and promoted on
performance.
The muddle in the middle of this concept is of course the fated currency
problem. It’s one for the technocrats and bankers to sort out. But, regardless
of ECB bravado, the Euro’s position is becoming increasingly untenable as a universal
currency.
Recognising that Europe is still in a fast mid-stream River of Change is the single most
important realisation Europeans can make. There is no easy voluntary political
concept that marries a continental peoples so diverse, distributed and strongly
independent. There are only visionary concepts, which in due time run their
course before a necessary metamorphosis is undertaken once again.
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