NO CONFIDENCE VOTE MAY LEAD TO NEW ELECTIONS
PM OUT FOR ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL SPENDING
The current PM of France, Francois Bayrou has resigned after a no confidence vote from parliament. This followed protests about his plan to cut $52 billion in spending to address the increasing debt. He is the fourth Prime Minster to resign in the last 20 months. Macron says he will appoint a new Pm in the next few days. Protests are continuing with calls for Macron to resign and other grievances.
There is trouble in the major countries of the EU with rumblings in Germany with new elections coming up on Sept. 14 in Rhine-Westphalia region. 7 candidates of the AFD party have died in the last few weeks, all reportedly of natural causes, a statistical impossibility. Other parties have also suffered losses with the total for all now at 16 due to unexpected death. Chancellor Merz has rejected another $5 billion in aid to Ukraine and like France and UK, the government is at historic low popularity. One can expect serious changes are on the horizon in the EU.
The increasing debt, coupled with a loss of manufacturing jobs due to high energy costs and plans to increase military spending are all adding up to economic and political crisis. China and Russia just signed a huge pipeline deal, that both will cooperate in building, that will move the gas that was intended to serve Europe through the destroyed North Stream pipeline. It is likely that Europe may never restore its energy supplies from Russia. It will create conflict within by those who want to end fossil fuel and nuclear energy use and those who are becoming unemployed.
The calls by some to rearm Germany may be on ominous sign for the future of Europe. It will raise red flags internally and with Russia.
An end of the Ukraine conflict may have some relief in these countries but will also, if viewed as an EU and NATO defeat, raise other political and economic issues. This may be the most unsettled and dangerous periods for Europe since WW2.
I will add, the EU's serious problems with illegal immigration. Great Britain in particular. Cities there are rapidly becoming Muslim-controlled. Long time residents by the millions have started to openly express disgust with their government's special treatment of invaders who are draining resources.
ReplyDeleteSome actually believe civil wars are coming soon. To tamp down unrest, England has actually resorted to eliminating free speech, and even jailing some who they decide said the wrong things.
Thankfully, our President Trump is facing up to the immigration problem directly to get things back under control here before America is in the situation the EU finds itself. Our Democrat Party objects, of course.