{"id":32607,"date":"2018-03-21T06:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32607"},"modified":"2018-03-21T06:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:23:31","slug":"the-european-union-wants-to-be-an-even-bigger-global-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32607","title":{"rendered":"The European Union Wants to Be an Even Bigger Global Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European Union Wants to Be an Even Bigger Global Bully<\/a><\/h3>\n
Europe doesn’t need another empire.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Over time, the European Union has developed into more than just an economic cooperation between nations. The EU is a big and intrusive government that constantly acquires new powers. And like all\u00a0superstates, its tendency to defend freedom against control is swindling.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The “United State of Europe”<\/strong><\/p>\n

When\u00a0Euroscepticism\u00a0became a part of the political landscape of the European Union, fears of the creation of a \u201cUnited States of Europe\u201d were widespread among circles opposed to this political project. In those days, this fear was widely regarded as clich\u00e9. However, clich\u00e9s become clich\u00e9s for a reason.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Much like those\u00a0skeptical\u00a0of the Brussels bureaucracy predicted, the union has concentrated power within its structures.\u00a0Now that the United Kingdom has become the first country to leave the EU, you might think that there would be a re-evaluation of this large centralization effort. But to the contrary, the European Union is increasingly moving towards the centralization of two key aspects: foreign policy and defense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreign Policy\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever since the EU\u2019s last institutional reform in 2009, the European Commission, which is the executive branch, has appointed a High Commissioner for Foreign Relations. The position, currently held by the Italian politician Federica Mogherini, has been mocked for essentially being useless since the EU doesn\u2019t have a common foreign policy. This would be similar to appointing a secretary to a department that has been granted no powers by the government whatsoever. However, this hasn\u2019t prevented Mogherini from making policy statements in an effort to unite European member states behind a common position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A notable example of this was when Mogherini condemned the United States for moving the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but the Czech Republic blocked any attempt to have a common position. Czech president\u00a0Milo\u0161\u00a0Zeman consecutively promised to follow the American lead and move its embassy as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The European Union Wants to Be an Even Bigger Global Bully Europe doesn’t need another empire. Over time, the European Union has developed into more than just an economic cooperation between nations. The EU is a big and intrusive government that constantly acquires new powers. And like all\u00a0superstates, its tendency to defend freedom against control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17053,95,279,284,326,14991,6599,10522],"class_list":["post-32607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bill-wirtz","tag-brussels","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-policy","tag-foundation-for-economic-education","tag-superstate","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32608,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607\/revisions\/32608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}