Europe - the letzte Mensch or Übermensch, the new Byzantium or declining Rome

Fachartikel 630

Fachbereich
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Fachrichtung
Volkswirtschaftspolitik
Arbeitsbericht
2014
Sprache
deutsch

Beschreibung

Will the passionately US-pushed cross-Atlantic Free Trade Area push the things over the edge and mark an end of the unionistic Europe? Is the extended EU conflict with Russia actually a beginning of the Atlantic-Central Europe’s conflict over Russia, and internalization of grand geopolitical and geo-economic dilemma – who accommodates with whom, in and out of the Union? Finally, does more Ukrainian (and Eastern Europe) calamities pave the road for a new cross-continental grand accommodation, of either France or Germany with Russia, therefore the end of the EU?
Before answering that, let us examine what is (the meaning and size of) our Europe? Where, how and – very importantly – when is our Europe? For example, is the non-EU Europe the existent but invisible world, sort of the dark side of the moon? Or, is that more? Beyond the ancient Maastricht and Schengen: the Roman Hadrian Wall and Limes Line there was no world at all. There was only (an instrument of) the Silk Road – that antique WTO, isn’t it? Hence, is this unionistic condominium the best of Europe, or Europe itself?

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