printIf European Keynesians—the “fattened aristocracy of economic experts”—have their way, northern Europeans will soon be working for Southern Europeans (the more productive Europeans are already subsidizing and bailing out their profligate neighbors). Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy will have to resist “the idea of collective liability, often referred to as ‘eurobonds,’ [which] has been floated various times since last year.” “A full fiscal union, underpinned by eurobonds,” is tantamount to full-throttle debt monetization, in conjunction with a policy of inflating the currency in-unison.
Merkel’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is working against the better instincts of his Boss (Merkel) and supports an integration of Europe’s “national economic policies,” so that they can “act as a single borrower.”
Conservative politicians in Germany and other northern European countries have previously dismissed the proposal as a violation of the European ideal, in which countries cooperate but remain responsible for their own fiscal affairs.
In the prescient “Adieu to the Evil EU,” you an read a better description of what the EU (generally supported by American neoconservatives) aimed to achieve. And has pretty much accomplished.
The EU “endeavors to herd Europeans by stealth into a supranational European State and… block off all the exits. This it intends to achieve by rigid central planning and harmonization of laws across the continent. In the absence of political and economic competition, the bureaucrats of Brussels will be free to rule and regulate; tax and inflate the money supply at will. This is what the rejectionists, including the cheese eating surrender monkeys, have defeated…for now.”
As I wrote in 2005, “An overarching tier of tyrants—the EU—to European governments will benefit Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.”