[D66] European Union: From economic community to alliance of warmongers

[Oto]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/14/pers-a14.html

European Union: From economic community to alliance of warmongers
14 April 2014

The European powers, led by Germany, are on a confrontation course with
Russia. They are pursuing not only foreign, but also domestic political
aims.

The instigation of a crisis and confrontation with Moscow is aimed at
unifying a divided European Union and silencing all social opposition.
Previously, the identity of the EU was grounded on economic issues, such
as the free movement of capital and goods and the common currency. In
future, the struggle against a common enemy will replace economics as
the basis of the EU’s internal cohesion.

A number of editorials in the German press have spelled this out. The
Brussels correspondent of Der Spiegel, Gregor Peter Schmitz, writing on
March 20 under the title “Europe’s Great Opportunity,” said, “As sad as
the Crimean crisis is in many respects, it also offers an historic
opportunity: To unite a stronger Europe.”