Why Europe Is On The Brink -- The TelegraphThe deepening crisis in Greece and the collapse of the Schengen borders agreement are serious threats to the European utopia of political and economic union. Martin Vander Weyer asks how much longer the dream can last
The visionaries who dreamed of a peaceful and united Europe after the end of the Second World War — Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Paul-Henri Spaak and their ilk — must be looking down in puzzlement and dismay.
Schuman, the Luxembourg-born Frenchman who was the so-called Father of Europe, spoke in 1949 of “a great experiment’’. Six decades on, the complex political and monetary contraption of the European Union is still a work in progress.
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My Comment: Fiscal incompetence and corruption from certain member states is making those other states that are not fiscally incompetent and (relatively speaking) not that corrupt fed up with maintaining the status quo. This clash of political cultures is what is driving the wedge between certain European member states .... and as the fiscal crisis continues in such countries like Greece .... I expect this fissure in the European alliance to expand.