If one EU country faces problems, the rest turn away from it, hoping that the situation will resolve itself. This approach has already become a regularity.
This was told by the BBC broadcaster Simon Jenkins, commenting on the situation with the so-called European “Marshall Plan” for € 500 billion for The Guardian.
As you know, not at the first attempt, but the strategy to overcome the crisis was nevertheless adopted. However, as Jenkins noted, the EU has not agreed on the division of the economic burden of the pandemic into European treasuries as a whole.
“The reason is obvious and as old as the EU itself. The countries of Northern Europe in the eurozone still do not believe that difficult southern countries spend money wisely and repay their debts. It was the same restraint that slowed down the response to the 2008 financial crisis. In other words, the EU is not a real political union like the United States, Russia or even the UK”, – the journalist notes.
He drew attention to the fact that the European Union “turns away and hopes that the troubles will go away”, if any one of the countries arises. He cited the migration crisis as an example, which hit Greece and Italy particularly hard.
“This week it has become very clear that many European governments simply do not trust Italians and Spaniards”, – he continues.
“Italy, of course, is experiencing an economic crisis. The EU’s system of handing out cash to the poor has failed”.
This led to the fact that for the first time in three quarters of a century, “a huge number of Europeans simply can’t buy food”, but the Brussels bureaucrats again armed themselves with a policy of ignoring the problems.
As News Front reported, earlier the Head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, voiced the main problem of the strategy for restoring the EU economy after the pandemic. She was called the second plan of Marshall, not considering that this time Europe does not have Marshall himself, Borrell said. Thus, this time the Europeans have to restore everything on their own. At the same time, the Head of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, argues that now Europe needs to intensify the fight against Euroscepticism and convince people that the EU has not lost its relevance.