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BREXIT: endless blundering
30-11-2018Ever since Prime Minister Cameron called for a referendum for internal Conservative Party reasons, British politicians have blundered on from the badly prepared referendum, the departure of the Brexiteers from Government, the unnecessary and failed elections and the complete ignorance about the issue of leaving the European Union after 43 years. In Britain the debate lartgely remained a national one with typical British,arrogance as if only the national debate counted. No effort was made to understand the European side of the debate. Efforts to divide the 27 were of course made, but failed completely. The European negotiator Barnier did a brilliant job, kept the 27 united and finally offered a very good deal to the British.After so many years of British made disturbances, overwork, tension and conflict it is time that British politicians finally see the reality. The agreement id the best they can get. Another referendum, a government crisis or an effort to re-open negotiations can only lead to further postponement or the chaos of departure without agreement. Attached article offers a good analysis, unfortunately with a very British but unworkable proposal.
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The Illusions of Detente
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Since 1989, we refer to the whole post-war period as the “Cold War Era”. Such was not the case in 1968. At the time, the Cold War – in our perception – was behind us. We no longer felt to be in the midst of it. Europeans on the Western side of the Iron Curtain0 felt relatively at ease with Europe’s division. The era of Détente as we called it, was0 considered to be a fairly stable and long-lasting political condition, even after Soviet tanks crushed Dubcek’s socialism with a human face in Pragu