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Will COVID-19 kill the EU....Kill the dream?

Grand Mal said:
Pretty ironic given the empty snark you plastered on the first page of your thread.
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One of the most dishonest members of the forum imo.
 
The EU really need to think this crisis through flexibly and financially for those hardest hit by it, or the bloc will certainly fracture in places.

There's certainly North-South divide on ideas, which look set to get messy, and are probably the biggest threat. You now have Italy bringing up non paid WW2 debts from Germany, so lots of mudslinging too. Italy is a major concern in all this, with a public debt of around 130% before the current crisis, it's impossible to imagine how they will ever crawl out of that hole now.

Now the EU’s top scientist quits over the bloc’s response to the pandemic, which further shows the disharmony going on.

This virus really is the EU's biggest ever challenge, and if it can overcome the fallout from it, it can pretty much survive anything.
 
Chagos said:
Yeah, spectacular demonstration of butthurt.

But then a Ferrari never goes places even if Vettel drives it.:mrgreen:
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Well done for spotting the F1 possibilities...
 
Snazzy said:
The EU really need to think this crisis through flexibly and financially for those hardest hit by it, or the bloc will certainly fracture in places.

There's certainly North-South divide on ideas, which look set to get messy, and are probably the biggest threat. You now have Italy bringing up non paid WW2 debts from Germany, so lots of mudslinging too. Italy is a major concern in all this, with a public debt of around 130% before the current crisis, it's impossible to imagine how they will ever crawl out of that hole now.

Now the EU’s top scientist quits over the bloc’s response to the pandemic, which further shows the disharmony going on.

This virus really is the EU's biggest ever challenge, and if it can overcome the fallout from it, it can pretty much survive anything.
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Your underlining of Italy's dire state actually tells it all. They're the ones shouting the most loudly for Eurobonds. Whole thing is kinda like me having shat the nest completely with all the banks and then demanding of you (seeing how you're far more financially sound) that you play guarantor for my next borrowing spree. In that process somewhat screwing up your so far favorable conditions on the money market.

That Spain, Greece and Portugal simply have to jump aboard that wagon comes as no surprise, but it changes nothing in the audacity displayed.

How the heck they think the voters in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland are going to stand for any of it (with any such "change" of EU statutes having to be put in a referendum in at least one of those) is anybody's guess.
 
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