When the world faced a global economic meltdown, several EU member states didn't give the EU a second thought before announcing their own unilateral "solutions" to their problems.
Now the world is facing a humanitarian disaster in Gaza following the Israeli invasion and the EU has fragmented again.
Nicolas Sarkozy has obviously got the world peace bug after single handedly solving the Russia-Georgia situation because he's decided to hop on a plane to Israel to solve the Israel-Palestine problem despite the fact the EU has already sent a delegation headed up by the Czech foreign minister. And let's not even go down the route of what's happening with President Bliar, he was supposed to have sorted it by now.
One-upmanship, imperialism and personal grudges are all there when you scratch the surface, guiding the decision making of the EU federal project. Sarkozy has an ego the size of Brittany but his decision to shun the EU delegation and go there himself is probably more to do with him throwing his toys out of the pram over the Czech president's outspoken euroscepticism.
Whatever the solution to the trouble in the Middle East ends up being, it sure as hell isn't going to come from the EU when it has failed to stop genocide, terrorism and illegal occupation happening on its own doorstep.
Monday, 5 January 2009
wonkotsane is an author at Bloggers4UKIP.
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