{"id":50052,"date":"2019-12-10T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50052"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:30:09","slug":"frexit-is-france-hurling-toward-exiting-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50052","title":{"rendered":"FREXIT \u2013 Is France Hurling toward Exiting the EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FREXIT \u2013 Is France Hurling toward Exiting the EU?<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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France is by no means calming down. There is a major underlying problem in France which is rising to the surface in direct confrontation with the government and Macron\u2019s ambition to lead Europe. Macron\u2019s confrontation with Trump over NATO is a reflection of a historical posture of the French government that has resented both Germany and the United States. Macron had said, \u201cThe Atlantic alliance can<\/em> only be restored in one way, through restoring the unity of Europe.\u201d The twelve founding members set up a headquarters together for the first time in London in 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NATO Headquarters was located at 13, Belgrave Square. The last meeting to be held in London before the move to Paris was on April 1, 1952, which coincided with NATO\u2019s third anniversary.  NATO<\/strong> was forced to move its headquarters from Paris, France (the A building for Alliance) following the French withdrawal from NATO, which then moved to Brussels<\/strong> 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macron did not advocate that France should pull out of NATO as was the case under\u00a0 President de Gaulle. Indeed, de Gaulle did withdraw France from NATO\u2019s military structure in 1966, yet it remained an Ally. Macron has been also pushing for a European Army. Clearly, Macron\u2019s agenda has been to federalize Europe and that is clashing with the people. He is NOT a proponent in having the USA a major part of NATO according to reliable sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron has been pushing economic reforms to curtail the social benefits in France in his effort to federalize Europe. In protest of his planned reforms in the pension system, the unions have organized several general strikes, which are now being joined by the yellow vests. This has resulted in bringing in hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets. The problem which Macron faces is that France\u2019s economic performance can no longer finance the generous welfare state which is far beyond international standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FREXIT \u2013 Is France Hurling toward Exiting the EU?\u00a0 France is by no means calming down. There is a major underlying problem in France which is rising to the surface in direct confrontation with the government and Macron\u2019s ambition to lead Europe. Macron\u2019s confrontation with Trump over NATO is a reflection of a historical posture […]<\/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":[5496,15342,284,333,6938,553],"class_list":["post-50052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-frexit","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052","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=50052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50053,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052\/revisions\/50053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}