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2005-02-22 Europe

EU doomed by 2020 unless it adopts radical reforms - CIA

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-22 12:52:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Then of course Kyoto is making the problem worse by requiring increased taxation and decreasing economic growth.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-22 1:07:52 AM|| 2005-02-22 1:07:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 If the Euros had any sense, they'd start inviting in folks from (non-Muslim) SE Asia and Latin America instead of the Mohammadans they're selling their souls to now.

Their current immigration patterns aren't even particularly geographical -- why keep going down that insane path?

Posted by someone 2005-02-22 1:35:40 AM|| 2005-02-22 1:35:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 And largely unremarked and uncounted is that Western Europe has a high emigration rate. Whilst it has slowed recently, the UK loses perhaps 75,000 a year almost all skilled mostly to USA, Australia and Canada.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-22 1:43:29 AM|| 2005-02-22 1:43:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Get the heck out while the getting is good. Going to be a shame to see all those cathedrals turned into mosques without a shot being fired. They don't get much use as it is anyhow.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-22 2:16:43 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-22 2:16:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5

Its simple..Begat thru fornication.

Posted by Snoluck Ulusing8638 2005-02-22 3:47:31 AM|| 2005-02-22 3:47:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow. The CIA gets one right for a change.

Posted by Mike 2005-02-22 5:58:56 AM|| 2005-02-22 5:58:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know about that Mike, you think the EU will actually survive to 2020?

Posted by AzCat 2005-02-22 6:20:45 AM|| 2005-02-22 6:20:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I would repeat myself... slo-mo train wreck. It was a writing on the wall already some 25 years ago, when I decided to set sails westward.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-22 6:41:17 AM|| 2005-02-22 6:41:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 *shakes head* I personally think the predictions of the assessment are correct from first principles, but I think Aris would have a field day razzing us, pointing out how it comes from the same people who missed 9/11 and failed to push the WMD->Bekka Valley connection WRT Iraq.

Posted by Ptah 2005-02-22 10:46:30 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-02-22 10:46:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 This assessment is frustrating. First and foremost, while proper in usage, "the EU" isn't a single thing, it is a bunch of things, some of which exist, some of which are failing, and some of which haven't even been created yet, and may not ever exist. There is the economic-monetary union; the political-bureaucratic-domestic-policy union; the legal union; the foreign policy union; the constitutional-federal-presidential executive union and the military union. And they do NOT evenly parallel each other. Some may never come into being, some may remain even if the rest collapse, and some may last in one form or another as long as the Holy Roman Empire, and be as equally useless. As even the casual Euro-observer will admit, if you look at the EU in each of these areas, you see an entirely different situation.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-02-22 11:18:44 AM|| 2005-02-22 11:18:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I cannot recommend EU Referendum enough.

Great blog.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-02-22 12:42:46 PM|| 2005-02-22 12:42:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 After reading another article which mentioned that Article III claims animals are sentient beings, too, I decided the CIA was too generous. I give a political union ten years at the most. It was noted other places today that it would give them a single anti-American voice, but I don't know that that will be enough to keep them together, not with the way the world is changing.

Posted by The Doctor 2005-02-22 3:57:44 PM|| 2005-02-22 3:57:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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