Where Does Europe Go Now?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. May 31, 2005 Just one week after the U.S. Senate had successfully resisted a virtually rabid Vice-President Dick Cheney’s intended coup d’état against the U.S. Constitution, a wide majority of the participating 70%-odd ration of eligible French voters rejected the proposed European constitution. Meanwhile, during the entirety of that intervening week, the European leading press, with the most notable exception of Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung , had kept a strict silence on the Earth-shaking implications of the U.S. Senate’s actions in resisting Cheney’s intended, almost Hermann Göring-like or, should we prefer “Carl Schmitt-like,” or “Leo Strauss-like” coup. The connection between the French election-campaign and the week-long silence of the European press on the U.S. Senate actions should now be obvious among the thinking variety of leading European circles. When the world is sliding, at a presently accelerating rate, into the world’s worst general mone
In rejecting the new European constitution, voters in France and the Netherlands have done themselves and their fellow citizens of the European Union a great favor. One sign of just how much Europe’s leaders needed this punch in the face was their remarkably inept response to the votes. The expectation that the Union would be run to suit its leaders and civil servants, regardless of the wishes of its peoples, had become so deeply ingrained that popular rejection of the planned constitution resulted in total intellectual paralysis. The referendum result had looked possible, at the very least, for weeks. It still reduced France’s Jacques Chirac and Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder to a kind of gibbering idiocy. How come? Because, when it comes to the European Union (very different from domestic politics in the respective member states), this was a completely new experience. The leaders did not get their way. The outcome rendered them speechless. Only a badly broken polity—one that urgently ne
