“Donald Trump will never win the Nobel Peace prize. But he should be a strong contender for the Charlemagne prize — which is awarded each year to the person who has made the greatest contribution to European unity.”
https://www.ft.com/content/724d9205-f449-4edf-9754-f37fa5d8f504
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They're always welcome to be honorary Europeans.
1/ The first is European defence;
2/. the second is joint European debt;
3/ the third is repairing the breach between the UK and the EU
In some way both Russia and Trump is serving to underline the original purpose of the ECC/ EU. The powerful emotional drive that resulted in its creation. And why 🇬🇧 should be at its heart not outside it.
Will the U.K. be outside that single market wall (again) by virtue of Brexit. Quite likely.
But that is inevitable. Being outside the EU does not spare us the consequences or the arguments or debates.
As @gideonrachman.bsky.social says
“There were similar doubts and setbacks on the often bumpy road to setting up the original European coal and steel community in the 1950s and the single currency in the 1990s.”
All of the great leaps forward for European unity have been caused by geopolitical shocks — first the end of the second world war; then the end of the cold war.”
Europe responded with strength and inventiveness to the last two great challenges.
It can do so again.”