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EU-USA - Start of a beautiful friendship?- by Phillip Blond
For the first time in several hundred years the West is on the losing side of history. This is the thesis of Edouard Balladur, the former French Prime Minister who in a recent essay argues that "history is starting to be made without the West and perhaps one day it will be made against it". The 78-year-old statesman believes that Western values are so threatened that the only way to defend global democracy and the rule of law is for the US and the EU to consider a real political, economic and cultural union. Like many he fears that the West is in cultural decline and unable to face the challenges that confront it. For Balladur, the West must undergo a revolution in thinking and come together and defend its common values in the face of unprecedented global threats.
Labels: EU, Integration, US
