European Project Rushing Headlong Into the Abyss – French Newspaper

• European Project Rushing Headlong Into the Abyss – French Newspaper
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  Not since the moment of its creation has the project for a unified Europe faced the kinds of existential threats which have plagued it in the last decade, writes French journalist Jean Quatremer.
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  In his recent editorial for French daily newspaper Liberation, columnist Jean Quatremer suggested that the continent’s never-ending economic crisis, compounded by a flood of refugees brought on by Western adventurism in the Middle East, threatens to push the European Union project to the breaking point.
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  “Will the European Union make it through 2016? Never since the European community’s formation in the 1950s has the project faced such a succession of shocks,” the journalist suggested.
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  Quoting the pessimistic commentary of EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger and EC President Jean-Claude Juncker, the former recently suggesting that the EU could disintegrate, and the latter stating that he has ‘no illusions‘ about the supranational union’s prospects for 2016, Quatremer lamented that ever since the 2008 crisis, Europe has found itself between a rock and a hard place.
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  “Since 2008, the situation in Europe has gone from bad to worse. It all began with the US financial collapse of 2007, which gave birth, in 2008, to an economic crisis –the worst since 1929, which seems to have no end in sight for Europe.”
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  This crisis, which nearly destroyed the Eurozone, has only been exacerbated by “the adventurism of American foreign policy, and that of the British and the French, destabilizing the Mashriq (the Arab countries east of Egypt) and the Maghreb (the Arab countries of northwest Africa west of Egypt), prompting a million people to seek refuge on the continent and leading to the outbreak of a wave of terrorism on European soil.”
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  “Meanwhile,” in 2013-2014, Quatremer continued, the fumbling efforts of ‘communal diplomacy’ “awoke the Russian bear,” causing a crisis in Ukraine and leading to a level of tension unknown since the Cold War. 
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