Delors Institute terrified of "populist resistance" against centralisation of power in the European Union

The French analytical institute, founded by Jacques Delors in 1996, at the end of his word as president of the European Commission, is afraid about Donald Trump's triumph in the US "enhancement of populist opposition in Europe against law, standards and principles" which Brussels imposes on states to dismantle national sovereignty.

Page Think tank Jacques Delors Institute released a brief comment by Nicole Gnesotto entitled: Five lessons from America. The author is simply a retired prof. of CNAM, vice president of the Jacques Delors Institute, and was Deputy Head of the Centre for Analysis at the Ministry of abroad Affairs of France (1987 – 1990). By 2007, she besides headed the EU safety Studies Institute (EU-ISS). In 2008, she was appointed prof. of the European Union at the University of Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM). She was besides the first female to chair IHEDN and a associate of the White defence Paper Commission in 2013. He has been a associate of the public tv program Nouvel Esprit for more than 10 years.

Gnesotto, commenting on the results of the U.S. elections, pointed to the "five lessons" that can be drawn from them.

She first noted the "regression of women's rights", for which white men are to be blamed, along with "all their fellow Latinos, African-Americans, mulattos confused by not only the economical crisis, but also, above all, by 4 decades of feminism fighting for sex equality".

“The fight of women is not a historical anecdotal. It's a communicative by large H, and European women are neither smarter nor better protected than American women," warned the Vice-Chief of the Institute, which affects many EU regulations.

Gnesotto besides asked the question, how could you fall like that? "This question should be on the lips of all politician in the world. The event is not so much the choice of Donald Trump as the overwhelming scale of his victory. What have we done or neglected over the last 50 years, leading to the fact that hysteria has prevailed over reason, insults over dialogue, force over respect, the spirit of vengeance and the pleasance of punishing, marginalizing, condemning, and at best ignoring others?"

The author added that "the American crisis goes far beyond the borders of the United States", announcing "the severe crisis of Western democracy, the 3 elements of which break apart simultaneously: liberalism and economical openness, typical democracy and the boon of the American power."

Trump's triumph besides affects the global governance system, manifesting itself in the Global South's "hate" towards the Western principles of "good and our moral certainty". They do not want to "mass support for democracy and its values". They no longer believe in them, and "excluded for besides long, they want revenge", they want to "dominate." The opposition to liberal democracy is common in the world.

The prof. adds that " Trump's triumph is simply a disaster for the European Union". "Not only due to the trade wars it will start, especially in the automotive industry. Not only due to geopolitical risks, increased unpredictability with respect to NATO and due to relationship with Vladimir Putin. But above all, due to the fact that it will strengthen populist opposition in Europe against law, standards and principles – in short, against any external obstacles to national sovereignty coming from institutions based in Brussels. Elon Musk and Victor Orban share the same hatred of government, regulation, and control and balance. In the name of freedom, they want to destruct the institutions that warrant our freedom. All European populists, starting with the UN in France, are the large winners of these elections. Their conventional anti-Americanism has expired," we read.

To this end, the retired prof. calls for a political opposition consequence which Europe must implement immediately. Politicians should not fly to the Mar el Lago residence in Florida to “take the best image with Trump, delay, close their eyes, rise toasts, accept what is unacceptable”.

The Eurocrat argues that our continent needs "an urgent" "extraordinary European leadership". It cannot be provided by the European Council, whose credibility has fallen due to the Presidency of Victor Orban, which delegates this institution.

On the another hand, there is simply a request for unity of “Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid and Warsaw” which “must respond together”.

The prof. urged her to react, even asking what the French president was waiting for. Why did Macron not invitation “five large Europeans for dinner” to challenge the Americans together? – Gnesotto lamented.

Source: institutions.eu

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