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.
For this plan to succeed it was essential that no disturbing external elements were revealed and instead Trump is disrupting the picture. As known, the US Congress has just approved the tax reform that reduces taxes for companies and what did the American president do in Davos? He sat down to dinner with around fifty CEOs of the world's leading companies, who invited them to move to the United States or to the new tax haven, which has a peculiarity: it's not Ireland, not a Caribbean statelet but the dominant superpower.
It is too early to assess the impact of the new regime on a planetary scale, but, the effects are potentially disruptive. Trump, who is a businessman, it could undermine globalist plans by leveraging the constituent element of capitalism: the profit. Why should the CEO of a large group stay in the EU or Switzerland if he can make his shareholders earn hundreds of millions? It is possible that in some time the exodus of the headquarters of large groups from Europe towards New York or San Francisco will begin, generating quite a few headaches in our area: How could Brussels continue to propose tax harmonization in the face of US competition?? It's not a stretch to predict that many states will soon lower taxes to try to retain businesses. Macron is already moving in this direction. But how is it possible that they can do so having to respect the very strict parameters of Maastricht and having to deal with the well-known dogmatic intolerances of Germany on the one hand and the ECB on the other? Add the disruptive effects on the European economy of the falling dollar and the sharp rise of the euro and the picture is clear.
Donald Trump risks jeopardizing the European Union and the plans of the globalist elite. Who would have thought?