Support for European solidarity, and even the very notion of a European Union, continues to fragment, writes the Editorial Board. (via latimesopinion)
Unfortunately, this broad disillusionment with an interconnected world comes against the backdrop of a rising China, which promotes a self-serving vision of globalism, and an aggressively meddlesome Russia, which is determined to reassert itself as a power. Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. as a leader on the international stage has left a vacuum and uncertainty about the future of international engagement.
Nationalism helped propel Europe into two devastating wars in the 20th century, and while the current situation does not indicate that we are heading down that road again, the world will face better prospects for peace, mutual prosperity and respect for fundamental human rights through cooperation and interconnections.
The EU election results also show us what happens when leaders of government fail to lead. France’s Yellow Vests movement is born of similar conditions to the United States’ tea party movement: a sense that national leaders and dominant multinational corporations have failed to recognize globalization’s impacts on small towns and rural areas suffering moribund local economies and stubborn unemployment, and the stress that places on local cultures and standards of living.
European voters have delivered yet another wake-up call to the governing classes of the EU nations, and of our own. There are crosscurrents and divergent wants within those nations, but a common sentiment is that people are not happy with the way they’re being governed. They want change, but often can’t define exactly what that change should be, or even whether it’s forward-looking or a return to an often-romanticized sense of a better past.
Nevertheless, one thing is rock-solid sure: The future cannot be forged by authoritarian regimes led by unaccountable strongmen in defiance of international norms of decency and democratic institutions. This closing off of ourselves from one another, this ostracizing of migrants or minority populations within our own nations, is not a recipe for success.
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