Of Marcello Foa

Source: Marcello Foa
The Trump we saw in Davos is perhaps managing to split the globalist establishment, using the most surprising tool: the fiscal one, which is putting the European Union in crisis, which , after Brexit and Trump's victory, it had been indicated as the shield of the globalist elite. Former Obama advisor, Kupchan, he had been explicit writing That:
United States and Great Britain will be, at least temporarily, fugitives when it comes to defending the international liberal order, Continental Europe will have to defend the position. At a time when the internal cohesion of the European Union is being tested by the same populism that must be defeated, this is not a good time to ask it to fill the void left by the Anglo-American disengagement. But at least for now, European leadership is the best hope for liberal internationalism.
Let me explain: the scheme promoted by the globalist elite envisaged, until today, the creation of a single bloc in the EU, with the progressive eradication of national identities and structures, with the corresponding transfer of executive and legislative powers to supranational entities, with the consequence of favoring large multinational groups. The CETA Treaty between the EU and Canada, which takes up several salient points of the defunct TTIP treaty, and approved in the silence of public opinion, aims on the one hand to get rid of national legal constraints, conferring to private individuals and not to a Supreme Court, the last resort in the event that a large company feels damaged by national laws or measures, on the other, that is, emptying one of the pillars of our democratic system, on the other, promoting not competition but tax harmonization between EU countries, with a double standard: increasing tax levels for citizens and local companies, loopholes with subsidized regimes (publicly blamed but actually permitted) for large multinational groups. Read More